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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: child support
Message-ID: <3342@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 18:02:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 18:02:25 1985
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Peter B writes on child support:
>I suppose I am a bit sensitive on this issue as I do pay child support...
>I much prefer to think of it
>as a moral responsibility.  I fathered the child and I should expect to
>share in the support of that child.  What the government decides in regard
>to this issue is actually immaterial to me.

As a mother who is NOT receiving child support, I would like to commend
you on your feelings.  Would that more people (and I include both men
and women here) felt a moral responsibility to support those that they
bring into the world.  Unfortunately, it must often be made a legal issue
because some do not consider it a moral one.

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