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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: legislative solutions?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.052744.25251@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1h0f1hINN232@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec20.232538.20849@rotag.mi.org> <1h410nINNn5i@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:27:44 GMT
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- In article <1h410nINNn5i@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >>Precisely my point. It is you and your ilk who are proposing legislative
- >>solutions to the "problem".
- >
- >Hmmm. I'm pretty sure that I've not proposed any "legislative solutions"
- >to the problem of child support.
-
- You've defended the alleged legislative "solution" that already exists,
- however. So your position is essentially pro-legislation, whereas mine is
- essentially anti-legislation.
-
- >I agree that the implementation of the laws is often
- >unfair, but the that requires executive (or judicial? what a mess!)
- >solutions, rather than legislative. We need the appointment of judges
- >that are free from gender bias, and social service agencies that are
- >gender-blind.
-
- That may help the men who want custody, Michal, but how does it help the
- men who are my main concern, i.e. the ones who have no interest whatsoever
- in being fathers?
-
- >I don't see that more legislation would solve the problem!
-
- Agreed. Furthermore, I propose that there be LESS legislation than
- currently, in order to remove the inequity.
-
- - Kevin
-