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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
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- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revisited
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:51:19 GMT
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- In article <bob1.725051279@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
- >In <BzMI8D.L4H@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >
- >>In article <bob1.724607266@cos> bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes:
- >>>In <BzB858.6EL@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>In article <1gg7lvINN5mk@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>>>>beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >
- >>>>Are you actually so parochial that you think that any person who
- >>>>has a one-night stand, who breaks up after a year-long relationship,
- >>>
- >>>I guess I must be. In love with someone you met three hours ago in a
- >>>bar and have just jumped in the sack with?
- >
- >>How does "three hours ago" compare to "year-long relationship."
- >
- >Well, I would hope that within the space of a year, some meeting of
- >minds could take place. Also, in such a time period the minds might
- >have 'thought' they met, only to discover it was not the case.
-
- Exactly.
-
- If you agree with Michal's position that the vile offense of
- "not keeping in touch" should be grounds to terminate a father's
- parental rights, then what do you think about the following:
-
- A couple is together for a year, but they break up and
- move to different cities, with each other's address. The
- woman is two weeks' pregnant. She later has the baby but
- doesn't tell the father.
-
- Michal would like the laws to permit her to terminate the
- father's parental rights, because he has, in Michal's words,
- "fled the scene."
-
- According to Michal, the man can preserve his parental rights
- only by traveling to the woman's new city eight months after
- breaking up, in order to pursue her and see in person whether
- she is now pregnant.
-
- Do you agree?
-
- Don
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