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Re: Family values?
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Date: 
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:57:23 GMT
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He's not much of a victim - it was HIS choice to take the risk of causing a
pregnancy (even IF birth control methods were used) - no sympathy from me there.

Christopher Weeks wrote:

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:

we're talking about a man who has been
deceived--deliberately or not--into accepting financial and moral
responsibility for a deadbeat's offspring.

I think that something we've been forgetting is that the "deadbeat" might very
well be the victim too.  There is no knowing that he knows there is a child in
the world of his genetic lineage.

Just a point,

Chris

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  Re: Family values?
 
(...) there. So you wouldn't feel victimized if you found out that you had a ten year old son that had been kept from you? I would. Chris (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Family values?
 
(...) If he wasn't informed about the pregnancy in a timely manner and if he would have willingly taken on the responsiblility had he known, I think it's fair to say he's a victim in all this too. Maggie C. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) I think that something we've been forgetting is that the "deadbeat" might very well be the victim too. There is no knowing that he knows there is a child in the world of his genetic lineage. Just a point, Chris (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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