Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ora!ora!daemon From: dank@arrester.cco.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: (Sharing the costs of) Child making and rearing Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 90 23:42:01 GMT References: <9008191421.AA15964@uunet.uu.net> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 20 Approved: ambar@ora.com mydog!gcf@hombre.masa.COM writes: > We can communize child support. That is, the taxpayers in > general would contribute to a fund which would supply every > child, from birth to, say, eighteen or completion of education, > a grant in the forms of money, school vouchers, medical > insurance, food stamps, rent subsidies -- and so on. >... > To keep the state from interfering in anyone's life, the grants > would have to be distributed with complete equality: no means > test, no ethnic or sexual categories, no regionalization, no > oversight by social workers. If the government picks up the tab for child rearing, it can also decide how many children should be allowed- further children would be raised at the expense of the parents, say. I'm sure it would do this eventually- see China, for instance. This might be a good thing, but I'm not quite sure I trust the government that far. - Dan Kegel (dank@moc.jpl.nasa.gov)