Botond173
2hr ago
Can you please explain what 'statutory child support' is as opposed to, well, child support?
Botond173
3hr ago
Botond173
3hr ago
Many states are making the spouse of the mother is listed on the birth certificate by default, even if they obviously are not the father.
As this, as far as I know, has actually been a decree in the Napoleonic Code, and basically the simple codified normalization of a Christian tradition, I'm not surprised. I don't think it's anything new.
Botond173
3hr ago
It seems the OP on that bygone blog was a bit of a doomposter then. At least it's what we can conclude as of now. Then again, doomposting generally did seem more than warranted back then.
Botond173
3hr ago
But does the cost of supporting and raising a family end up being paid by the true father? No.
Can we reintroduce debt slavery and forced labor then please? In order to turn that into a 'yes'?
Botond173
3hr ago
Can you elaborate on what a "men's feminist movement" would look like?
A general refusal and avoidance of taking overall responsibility for women, thus representing the further erosion of the old patriarchal order, in the same way the feminist movement contributed to that erosion through its refusal and avoidance of being accountable to men. And for men and women old enough to have been acculturated in patriarchal monogamous norms, it will come across as disgusting, much more so in fact than feminism ever did.
Botond173
3hr ago
Suffragettes did not get the credit they deserve for persisting with their non-woman-like behavior in public.
...what?
Botond173
3hr ago
Generally they are more along the lines of a man may contest paternity for a limited period. If he discovers false paternity years later he's SOL.
I kind of wonder what contesting paternity means in a practical sense in this context. Let’s suppose the wife does not agree to a test. Then what?
The men who really get screwed by family courts are typically low status who married very poorly.
I’d argue that the causality is reversed, in a sociological sense. When a divorce is initiated, which is done by the wife in most cases, society will assume that the husband is low-status because he was divorced. People will generally assume that it was his fault, because reasons.
People don't live atomic lives, and higher class women will have their behaviour policed by friends and family.
First I'd suggest that you may be underestimating the overall level of social atomization. Otherwise I'd inquire what policing actually entails here. Is it that her behavior is policed during the marriage so that she is discouraged from filing for divorce? Or is it that she gets policed after the filing of divorce so that she doesn't overdo her vengeance?
I think the unstated assumption is that assuming state responsibility for the welfare of bastards would be enabling the irresponsible behavior of their biological parents, and most citizens don't want that. Paying for the sick and elderly is similarly generally seen as the state's responsibility only when other options are unavailable.
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