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- From: dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
- Subject: Re: Biological Reasons fo
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.063005.1458@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:30:05 GMT
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- <1992Nov17.055842.5919@netcom.com> (Ray Fischer) writes:
- > A more equitable situation would have custody of the child
- > automatically go to the state, requiring _both_ parents to sue for
- > custody, and with judgements equitably distributed between men and
- > women.
-
- Perhaps this would be more "equitable," but would it be better?
- That is, is "equity" the most important goal in formulating
- policies about parental responsibilties? As an example, if
- we could devise a policy which everyone agreed was perfectly
- fair, but which also resulted in doubling the number of children
- living in poverty, would it be worth it? Or if a fair system
- meant no child ever knew his parents? Fairness cannot be the
- only standard we use to measure the value of public policy.
-
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- | Don Porter | dgp@saturn.wustl.edu | Washington University in St Louis |
- | "The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they |
- | please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we |
- |___risk congratulations." -- Edmund Burke._________________________________|
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