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- From: gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,soc.women,soc.singles,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract)
- Message-ID: <727638228@lear.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:43:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.231228.12011@zooid.guild.org> <C17MJK.ADA@panix.com>
- Followup-To: soc.men
- Organization: The Immoral Minority
- Lines: 58
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- In article <C17MJK.ADA@panix.com> gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
-
- >You will also find that raising children is a lot of work.
-
- *IF* you do it right.
-
- Like always, Gordon's implicit assumption (that the welfare mothers
- raise their kids in a good way) is the important one...
-
- >Women with access to
- >contraception and abortion almost never have large numbers of
- >children; those who do are almost always in a patriarchal
- >situation -- e.g. various fundamentalist religious types who
- >believe that it's the Godly thing to do.
-
- So how comes that liberals states like New York or Massachusetts
- have a much more serious welfare problem than more fundamentalist
- and religious states like those in the South East or in Utah?
-
- Can't you see that the facts contradict your theory?
-
- >In Ashmore's _dumb_ story, the fecund momma has none of this.
- >No support, no ideology.
-
- 1) In Carole's story the woman who kept having children had
- some religious reasons.
-
- 2) It is true that quite a few women follow the patriarchal religions
- that object to abortion, but there are also goddess based religions
- that see child bearing/raising as a good thing...
-
- >It's _possible_ that a few such
- >situations could arise, but they'd be socially insignificant,
- >not the gigantic problem Hillel makes them out to be.
-
- The problem is that y'all created a fool-proof environment for poor
- people, and in this environment a large number of people who take
- no responsibility are raised.
-
- The welfare queen is just one example, the people who burned down
- every store around their neighborhoods are another.
-
- Today 1/4 of the children in the U.S. are born to poverty; is this
- a gigantic problems by your criteria? Is the problem of people who
- keep having children they can't support, and bill the government
- for them, has any significance?
-
- >I don't know where you've been. I think I've seen at least
- >four editions. I hope Carole is getting royalties.
-
- I asked for Carole's permission to post the story to other groups.
-
- > )*( Gordon Fitch )*( gcf@panix.com )*(
-
- Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu
-
- "Personally, I don't think raising a child as a single parent
- is much of a burden." -- James G Keegan Jr
-