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Re: Family values?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:21:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> Of course fatherhood isn't simply a
> matter of chromosome donation (in fact, that's the least of it). But I'm
> saying that a person forced into the role of fatherhood against his will and
> through no fault of his own (that is to say, because he didn't donate the
> chromosomes) should not be legally bound to support those children against his
> will. If he chooses to do so, as in the case of adoption, that's admirable,
> but forcing it upon him--and, conversely, on the children--is more harmful
> than
> helpful.
And what's much worse in this case is that one poor fellow is being forced to
shoulder the responsibility for a child that is not his- and that the same
courts give him no rights to see or have a hand in raising.
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Just because at some point he had
sex with the child's mother, he is legally responsible to raise her child?
eric
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| (...) Agreed, but in the case above he's required to tend both his own garden and the garden of some other, deadbeat gardener. That's where I have the problem. (...) I wasn't very precise in my statement. Of course fatherhood isn't simply a matter (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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