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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity,soc.men,misc.legal,soc.women
- Subject: Re: Arranging for "The Care of A Child" as part of Male Choice...
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 21:24:04 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
-
- >First of all, I still believe that you consider a man's consent to sexual
- >activity to be an implicit agreement to raise a child. Regardless of whether
- >"a woman's body is involved," I do *not* support the notion of involuntary
- >consent. Indeed, if abortion *were* outlawed, and the man wanted to keep the
- >child, and the woman did not, your own belief that "a child has the right to be
- >supported" would mean that you believe that the woman should be forced to
- >parent the child as well, due to the father's decision to raise the child.
-
- Yes, I would believe that the woman would be required to contribute to the
- support of the child (under the situation you have outlined above).
-
- >I *would* like to see couples signing
- >*some* sort of Pre-Sex Contract, though *not* the kind which is a consent
- >to sex, but merely an agreement between the partners as to how any resulting
- >child will be cared for, if he doesn't wish to be a parent, while she does.
-
- I guess I'm more pessamistic than you. We can't even get couples to agree
- on child support when they've signed a *marriage* contract. I really don't
- think that a pre-sex contract would accomplish anything!
-
- >Also, I'd also like you to respond to Gordon Storga's request re: securing
- >proof that "children have the right to be supported by both parents", if you
- >haven't already responded to him.
-
- I submit that the "proof" exists in the overwhelming number of court
- settlements which mandate child support. But I suppose that isn't the
- kind of proof you're looking for.
-
-
- --
-
- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
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