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- From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
- Subject: Re: I HAD NO CHOICE ( was: Biological reaso
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.134513.2709@ll.mit.edu>
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- References: <4y44VB1w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> <7q75VB2w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:45:13 GMT
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- In article <7q75VB2w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca> lisa@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca writes:
- >bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
-
- >> Whoa. Mental abuse (more commonly called Emotional Abuse) has a prevalence
- >> in America unrivaled in any other country. It is an actionable offense, as
- >> you pointed out earlier, if it can be proven in court. Emotional abuse has
- >> many faces too. From telling someone repeatedly that they have no value,
- >> to making threats with no substance, but are believed by the victim. Emo-
- >> tional abuse is responsible for a tremendous amount of damage.
- >>
- >> To label it as a "made for tv movie" is hardly accurate, Jon. The abuse is
- >> so destructive, that we're waking up to the fact that it's responsible for
- >> a significant portion of child suicides. Earlier this year I had a young
- >> boy as a client --he killed himself. His father wanted no part of him and
- >> his mother was an alcoholic. He made it clear that he believed that he had
- >> no value at all. Just when we got him placed with relatives, he committed
- >> suicide. Emotional abuse is no 'movie.'
- >>
- >> > It is not a crime to claim large amounts of a husband's money because the
- >> > boyfriends dick has more money (divorce awards women, punishes men all in
- >> > the name of children). The system isn't working Amy.
- >>
- >> That's more or less true. (I don't argue that the system is broken, but I
- >> take exception to your generalization.) PEOPLE are screwed by the family
- >> law system all the time. Men are, and women are.
- >>
- >> If it's at all possible, we need to try to focus the anger of our divorces
- >> towards the right party. Many of the women who use the system as a weapon
- >> do so with the encouragement of that system. If the law was intelligently
- >> written and approached, we'd see a lot less of the crap. Many of the men
- >> who used the system as a weapon --or it's loopholes to slide, do so again
- >> with the encouragement of the system. Action/reaction, cause/effect.
- >>
- >> It's weird science, to be sure. But grant me this --the overall number of
- >> people hurt by our systems of family law vastly outweigh the feminists,
- >> conservatives, or traditionalists. To help them in their quest to keep
- >> the genders off balance and at each other's throats is a little foolish.
- >>
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- > Bob,
- >
- > It's so very nice to see your posts on this net...Would you be
- > willing to come up to Vancouver Island sometime to do a workshop,
- > or similar, with some folks here who could, I think, benefit
- > greatly from your insights?
- >
- >> Happy Holidays!
- >>
- >Merry Christmas and Happy '93 to you and yours, as well:-)
- >
- >Lisa
-
-
- Bob, turn your head. This is not directed at you.
-
- I just hate to see too much "stroking" being handed out
- for a well worded dissertation which has extra horsepower
- because of (a genuine) sob story.
-
- It is self evident that it's *PEOPLE* who are getting
- hurt by the *COURT SYSTEM*. Let's not get caught up
- in melodrama here.
-
- --
- Alan Yasutovich
- "inquiring (and nosey) minds WANT TO KNOW!!!"
- I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!!
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