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- From: garrod@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David Garrod)
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.002631.27877@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:26:31 GMT
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- In article <C1Fow0.F2t@austin.ibm.com>, karner@austin.ibm.com (F. Karner) writes:
- >
- >
- > Let's look at the situation from a different angle. Is there an
- > incentive for a woman that doesn't want the child, to notify the father?
- > No. Plain and simply, none. This is why I think that in most cases
- > allegations of potential abuse is a self-serving excuse rather than a
- > bona-fide concern for the child.
- >
- I agree. Not notifying the father and claiming potential abuse can
- hide, for example:
- i. mother turning to hate the father because he chose not to marry her.
- (The father could be a real jerk, but it`s also possible he may
- have discovered the mother is real bitch in time to stop the
- marriage, but not to stop the creation of a child. It has been
- known for a woman to get pregnant in order to try to make a man
- marry her!)
- ii. unwillingness of the mother to pay child support, because there is
- a strong possibility that might happen if the father got custody.
-