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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Biological Reasons fo
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- References: <1ebjs2INNmmn@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1992Nov20.191141.11640@rotag.mi.org> <1992Nov20.210034.25011@fys.ruu.nl>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:29:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.210034.25011@fys.ruu.nl> johnston@fys.ruu.nl (Helen Johnston) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.191141.11640@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>
- >>#1 is incorrect. Under the Common Law, an illegitimate child was considered
- >>"nobody's child", and had no rights to inheritance or support.
-
- > ... Paternal support of
- >children born out of wedlock has a very long history. Quoting from J.R.
- >Gillis, ``For better, For worse: British marriages, 1600 to the
- >present'':
- [...]
- >``Much later another Welshman remembered the customary way of dealing
- >with a man who did not own up to his duties:
- > A few neighbours came together, took the child from the young
- > girl and took it down to the reputed father to bring up ---
- > and to show they meant business they had brought their guns
- > with them. If he did not want to bring up the child himself
- > --- and that was usually the case --- the girl could make a
- > better bargain for taking it back than she could otherwise
- > have done.'' [p. 131]
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-
- I'd move to Wales, then. Just to have the opportunity to
- bring up my child myself. They wouldn't need the guns.
-
- By the way, does this have anything to do with the term,
- "welshing" on a debt? ;-)
-
- Don
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