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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Privacy -- and responsibility
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.214649.24965@netcom.com>
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- References: <1jfln7INNehp@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan19.043142.25117@rotag.mi.org> <1jkh05INNegv@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:46:49 GMT
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- In article <1jkh05INNegv@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1jfln7INNehp@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>>The assumption that a child has a right to be supported by both its parents.
- >>>Is that sexist?
- >
- >>Yes! Compared to the results obtained by regular application of (fault-based)
- >>legal liability principles, the statutes bestow a windfall on women, and exact
- >>a corresponding penalty from men. Sexism, pure and simple.
- >
- >The statutes are intended to support children, not bestow a windfall on women.
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- Awww, come on Michal. Do you not remember the mothers who sued for $30,000
- a month for child support, after getting half the company, and more, and
- won? There were several similar cases posted not long ago where the guys
- got taken to the cleaners, and most women who posted thought it was fair.
- I seem to recall that you though that it was OK, or something similar.
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- >Perhaps they are failing in their intent.
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- Or perhaps that is not their intent at all.
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- > Or perhaps it is the execution of
- >the statutes that has failed. I tend to think it is the latter. Perhaps
- >implementing better accounting of the current system (each set of parents
- >pays for own children, where possible) would improve things. Several
- >proposals for such accounting are under discussion in soc.men. I prefer to
- >try to fix the current ssystem rather than adopting a more socialistic
- >system. Let's not throw the baby out witht he bathwater!
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- How can you say that $30,000/month child support, plus $10K/month
- for entertainment, and the other examples of rediculous charges
- (for child support anyway) are just failures of the current system?
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- > -- Michal
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- >Impressive amounts of material can be accreted in this manner.
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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