Letters to the Editor
Parson Jim
Published Letters: 576 Editor's Choice: 7
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Very sad
[Read the article: Girls' suicide rates soar]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is sad to hear this news and revolting to see people making fun of it on this board.
But why couch it in terms of girls vs. boys? Teenage suicide is a clear sign that something is wrong with the way we are raising our children, and to make this a "feminist" issue is divisive and self-serving.
I suspect that, just like domestic violence and other issues that have been put through the feminist routine, someone, somewhere is lobbying for grants, etc. from the government for a program that will only serve teenage girls while ignoring teenage boys with the same problem. If true, this is tremendously self-serving.
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Bitter, and self-hating
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, Anonymi 2:05 and 2:10. Of course men must be punished in a divorce. The reality, though, is a man will be punished under the law if he is at fault or not.
And the above poster is correct - men should avoid women who are not earning money, and should work hard to get them back to work as soon as possible after the children are born.
Oh, and if you think no-fault divorce is behind women's victimization in these situations, you can thank the National Association of Women Lawyers:
http://www.abanet.org/nawl/about/history.html
"The Uniform Divorce Bill
"The greatest project NAWL has ever undertaken" is the description given by committee chair Matilda Fenberg to NAWL's pioneering work to create a Uniform Divorce Bill. At the 1947 NAWL convention in Cleveland, it was voted to draft and promote a bill that would embody the ideal of no-fault divorce. A draft prepared by Fenberg, working with NAWL past presidents Helen M. Cirese and J. Helen Slough, was approved at the 1952 convention in Berkeley, California.
Although the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws had attempted to produce such a bill since its founding in 1892, Fenberg was informed that the Conference could receive bills or suggestions only from the ABA. Fenberg-who had been the first woman student at Yale Law School in 1919-then undertook a campaign to convince the ABA to create a Family Law Section. Three years later, in 1955, the section was approved. Fenberg was appointed chair of the Subcommittee on Migratory Divorce. In 1960 the bill was introduced to the ABA, which sent it to the Conference.
In 1965, the Conference commenced the task of drafting, and in 1970 produced, the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act (amended in 1971 and 1973). By 1977, the divorce portions had been adopted by nine states. Following this, the momentum for uniformity waned, but the ideal of no-fault divorce became the guiding principle for reformof divorce laws in the majority of states."
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Brava, Anonymous 9:21
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are a rare and enlightened woman.
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mattielesbon
[Read the article: Lately I've been kissing women I'm not married to]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This country has an out of wedlock birthrate of 37%. Not all single mothers are divorced parents.
You don't seem to know anything about Clara Harris, who got joint custody of her kids from prison after killing her husband. Or Socorro Caro, who didn't kill all four of her children only because she ran out of bullets.
It's not apparent to me you have any clear knowledge about the true nature of domestic violence.
Men and children are people, too, and we are all connected. When you ignore the children and men who are abused by women, you ignore the women and girls who are damaged by that abuse doubly so, because you refuse to acknowledge the damage done to them indirectly by the women who inflict it on their children and adult male relatives.
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I know what you mean
[Read the article: Fearful fathers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A friend of mine's wife got full custody of her kids during their divorce proceedings. Since single mothers are more likely to kill or neglect their children than single fathers, I fear for those kids.
You'd think the courts and the legal code would follow the same statistically-driven thinking, but they don't.
Oh, well.
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PC Bigotry...Feminism
[Read the article: Fearful fathers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"We could only wish that Feminists were as powerful as Parson Jim wants people to believe they are."
"In the early 1970s, a dear male friend of mine lost his job as a kindergarten teacher because he made the awful mistake of putting his arm around a little girl in his class who had fallen down and scraped her knee at recess."
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Wow
[Read the article: Fearful fathers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow AKA Smith, if you experienced this, it must be representative of every instance of pedophilia.
I'm glad your expert opinion/anecdote has put this issue to rest.
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No one
[Read the article: Fearful fathers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No one wants to ignore children who are molested.
No one wants to ignore men or women who molest children.
Why do we ignore the latter and demonize the former to the extent that all men are tarred with the same brush?
If you do not believe that, see "breaking the Silence" for more examples of feminist demonization of men.
I can't recall a man who got a light sentence for having sex with teenagers. Many women have gotten such sentences.
If a boy is molested by a woman, does he suffer any less than a girl molested by a man?
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Yeah!
[Read the article: Fearful fathers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"My notions of justice require that we treat people as individuals and that we don't use sex as a predictor of character or behavior any more than we use race."
-Wendy Kaminer