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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:27:14 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- bweiss@cs.arizona.edu (Beth Weiss) writes:
-
- >Scenario: Woman has baby she knows she can't support, and wishes to
- >give up for adoption. She claims she doesn't know who the father
- >is.
- >Now what?
-
- >Options:
- >2) Force her to list all possible fathers and contact them all to
- >see what they want to do. If a possible father wants custody if the
- >child is his, then do DNA tests to see if he's really the father.
- >If all possibles don't care if the child is put for adoption, then
- >there's no problem.
-
- But what if she truly doesn't know -- and can't even guess? What
- if she was raped and doesn't know who raped her? What if she only
- knows his firstname (and it's something common like "john")?
-
- Also, what if she gives a *long* list? Who is responsible for
- diggin up all these men and contacting them? Who pays for it?
-
- --
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- -- Michal
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