From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 21:54:53 MST
Did they ever have a stake in it?
My impression is that overwhelmingly women in the U.S.
are dead set against anything that would reduce the
sacred status of their biological role as baby makers.
Here in California we have a new twist on this - the
"designated father."
Turns out that Grey Davis just recently vetoed a bill
that would have allowed alleged fathers who could
prove beyond any reasonable doubt via DNA analysis
that they could not possibly be the father of some
child to be relieved of the court-imposed obligation
for child-support. His justification for the veto was
that it put federal funding based on percentage of
fathers paying child support in jeopardy.
So, as described in the news coverage of Davis's veto,
there are men with families of their own living out of
cars now because most of their income is siphoned away
via garnished wages to pay for someone else's
children, solely on the word of some woman who they
may never even have met. In many cases, they never
even found out about the claim against them until it
was past the deadline to object. I.e., if you get
knocked up by some deadbeat in a motel, just find some
rich guy and designate him to be the father of record.
Or, if you're a woman and want to collect big time
without having to go thru the hassle of taking care of
a kid, just pick a fight with a man with some money,
force him to defend himself until you have some
visible bruises, and then call the police. Nine
chances out of ten, if you can keep your story
together, you'll collect big bucks.
Bottom line: that old time DNA is a mealticket for
women. When the news broke a few years back about how
medical researchers were saying that men could have
babies with a little surgical/drug intervention, every
woman I asked responded, "But then what is there for
women to do?" That's worse than sad - that's pathetic.
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