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Originally Posted by AngelicVampire
Kutulu, the main point I am arguing is that women have 1 level of choice more (essentially making sex 100% protected from their point of view as the final choice is always a choice) and that if you say one thing then go and do another then the other parties involved should not be affected by your decision. Now I don't truly believe in equality (men and women are different) however for some reason the rest of the world wants people to be equal, to have identical opportunites, rights and the ability to live freely, to that end should everything not be equal?
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Except that preganancy is not an equal burden on men and women. The woman has to bear the physical burden of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and recovery. Figure out a way for a fetus to be transferred from a woman to a man and we can start making things equal. Beyond that, it's all equal.
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Now I know its probably silly but if you read through some of those sites I posted (scary reading), something like 52% of mariages end in divorce, 72% of these started by women,
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and even if the woman [or man] remarries (assuming she [or he] has custody) you can still be made to pay child support despite your children no longer needing additional support.
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Fixed that one for you, since you neglected to include that it is the same no matter what the sex of the parent is (what was that you said about no equality?). Besides, why should your former partner's marital status change YOUR obligations to kids that YOU helped create? It's about the kids, not the adults! Furthermore, anyone who had a kid and refuses to give emotional AND financial support is a worthless POS and deserves to pay child support. Hell, IMO, they should rot in prison. Take a survey of current convicted felons, want to guess whether they came from stable homes?
Adoption can be done, my dad adopted my half-sister when he married my mom. I never met the guy but since I've never heard of my sister having any contact with him, I'm assuming her father was one of those POS's.
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The system itself (in Britain at least) also tends to support single mothers more than single fathers with various tax breaks, incentives etc... we should either get equality or call "equality" what it is, a sham (look at the US, there is a section in there allowing the government to apply sexist laws if they basically feel like it).
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