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  2. From: vanhoek@bend.ucsd.edu (Karen van Hoek)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.rape
  4. Subject: Re: Family Values
  5. Date: 16 Sep 1992 01:51:46 GMT
  6. Organization: Linguistics Department, UCSD
  7. Lines: 16
  8. Message-ID: <1963viINNg06@network.ucsd.edu>
  9. References: <1992Sep15.121857.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: bend.ucsd.edu
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  12. In article <1992Sep15.121857.1@woods.ulowell.edu> cotera@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
  13. >It seems to me that rapists, and violent criminals in general, blame their
  14. >problems on a bad home life while growing up.  They were beaten, molested,
  15. >their parents were alcoholics, etc.  Perhaps "Family Values" are important
  16. >after all.
  17.  
  18. Family values are important -- but not the "Family Values" the Republicans
  19. are harping on, which have more to do with suppression of women's
  20. independence and hatred of gays.  I haven't seen the right-wing
  21. "Family Values" people propose anything that would actually promote
  22. healthy, functional, nurturing families; they seem to be simply trying
  23. to turn back the clock to the '50s.
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  25. Karen
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