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- From: alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu (Amy Young Leith)
- Newsgroups: alt.dads-rights,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Divorce woes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.103752.6946@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:37:42 GMT
- References: <BzAB27.1uL@ddsw1.mcs.com> <43XXVB1w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca> <BzFFrD.JIr@SSD.intel.com>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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- In article <BzFFrD.JIr@SSD.intel.com> joel@ssd.intel.com (Joel Clark) writes:
-
- >Lisa, once a couple with kids decides to split (the subject at hand) there
- >is no more chance for WIN-WIN relationship. Everybody, mother, father,
- >children are going to lose something. While you are still trying to WIN
- >in such a situation you are only making it worse for everybody.
-
- You lose a living arrangement with someone you obviously don't get
- along with anymore. Is that a loss? Parents who are working TOGETHER
- for the good of the children should not lose the relationship with the
- children. But that's the key... WORKING TOGETHER.
-
- One of the main problems that I see is that we are exiting an era
- where women almost across the board depended upon men. For
- everything. If you had kids, that's all you had, the rest was his.
- In these situations, I think that men ARE obligated to support their
- children, if they want to continue to be a parent.
-
- These days, I think it's STUPID for any person, regardless of gender,
- to be dependent upon another person for their very existance in such a
- way. Some men are scum, some women are bitches, and I can't honestly
- believe that you wouldn't really know that by the time you decide to
- marry someone. If you don't, then should you really be marrying
- someone you hardly know?
-
- Wait a minute, I'm getting off track.
-
- As for win-win, you have to look at the situation AT HAND, not the
- past. If you are in a relatinship where you no longer care or can no
- longer function with your mate, something has to be done. It can be a
- win-win situation, each person going their own way, providing for the
- children *where needed*, sharing the responsability of parenting, and
- being civil with someone that, at one time, you deemed worthy of
- pledging sincerity to for the rest of your life. To do otherwise, and
- attempt to hurt the person, will in the end hurt a lot more people
- than just that person. Can someone *really* feel good about that?
-
- amy
-
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