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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.abortion.inequity,alt.dads-rights
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 04:08:15 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
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- >peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>Don, I've thought about it alot this weekend. I've concluded that
- >>the *good* of protecting the father's right to stop an adoption is not
- >>worth the *bad* of subjecting the mother and child to the risk of
- >>injury from an abusive father. Thus I cannot condone a legal
- >>requirement for paternal notification.
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- >Fine. Will you legally permit a father to abduct a child and disappear
- >if he knows the mother to be abusive?
- >Do you condone a legal requirement to inform a mother where her child is?
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- Are you claiming that abducting a child is equivalent to a mother
- declining to go out of her way to notify a former sex partner that
- she has borne a child?
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- -- Michal
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