NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/soc/men/23276

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From: [e-mail] (Ray Trent)
Subject: Re: adoption rules
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In the referenced article, [e-mail] (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
>>>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
>>Fine.  Will you legally permit a father to abduct a child and disappear
>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?

He claimed nothing of the sort. However, if your real conclusion was
that "the *bad* of subjecting the mother and child to abuse" justified
lack of notification (i.e. nullification of parental rights for the
father), then the same conclusion should force you to accept the
analogous abduction of a child from an abusive mother as being valid.

If you just think the woman should be able to say "go to hell" to the
man simply because she feels like it, why not say so? (hint: ...no,
on second thought, if you need a hint, no hint will suffice...)
--
"When you're down, it's a long way up
 When you're up, it's a long way down
 It's all the same thing
 And it's no new tale to tell"                      ../ray\..