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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.men,alt.feminism,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Update on "home alone" kids in Chicago [Re: Parallel situations]
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.021030.309@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 02:10:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.050758.1772@watson.ibm.com> <jay.31.725734979@UUSERV.CC.UTAH.EDU> <MITCHELL.92Dec30115243@gluttony.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <MITCHELL.92Dec30115243@gluttony.uchicago.edu> mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>>>>> "JD" == Jay Deuel <jay@UUSERV.CC.UTAH.EDU> writes:
- >
- > JD> P.S. How about the Chicago couple that left their kids "home
- > JD> alone"?
- >
- >They got home yesterday or today (I'm writing on Wednesday, 30 Dec),
- >and were immediately arrested. They were charged with child neglect,
- >child endangerment, and a third count that I can't remember.
- >
- >The children were first placed with a grandmother, but now have been
- >moved into a foster home. The early news stories said that the
- >grandmother declared that she found she couldn't take care of them,
- >but now make it sound more as though DCFS just decided to take them
- >away.
- >
- >As far as I've heard, the parents have not made any statement.
- >
- >
- >[Allcaps warning.] Usenet is after all supposedly "news", so I
- >answered with some news even though JD's question seemed to be
- >directed elsewhere. But I can't address whatever point he was making
- >with this example, since I just flash unread through articles on the
- >POINTLESS, ADSURD, MISGUIDED topics of men's supposed "rights" vis a
- >vis abortion,
-
- I am unaware of anyone seriously advocating giving any "abortion rights" to
- men (although a few anti-male-choicers have "jokingly" given their support
- for men to abort), Mitch. In fact, most male-choicers are solidly pro-choice.
-
- >...and the INFURIATINGLY ILLOGICAL and basically MISOGYNIST
- >arguments about it based on views about child support.
-
- What do you find "illogical" about trying to promote gender-equity, reduce the
- problem of illegitimate children, and holding people commensurately
- responsible for their voluntarily-incurred debts? None of these seem
- inherently "illogical" to me...
-
- - Kevin
-