Letters to the Editor
Parson Jim
Published Letters: 566 Editor's Choice: 7
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@Brightstar
[Read the article: Are our husbands really so helpless?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]C'mon - it's not that bad. You need to find a good wingman/woman and start hitting the clubs.
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True colors
[Read the article: Are our husbands really so helpless?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, Beaver, I should support a movement which lobbies against joint custody and rewards women for remaining indolent after a divorce. Of course, that makes sense....
And of course, any second wife who complains about the system must be a dupe who bought her husband's story about his first marriage. Why not attack her - she is a traitor to her sex if she is impacted by a lopsided, biased family court. Of course!
Glenn Sacks has posted a story about a child support agency that miscalculated child support in about a third of their docketed cases, in some instances to the tune of about a third of a million dollars over what it should be. Wonderful.
You can read about it here:
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/323780.html
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Audit criticizes Missouri’s child-support record-keeping
By TIM HOOVER
The Star’s Jefferson City correspondent
JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri’s child-support record-keeping is so bad that in an estimated 51,000 cases where back payments were owed, parents owed far more or less than records show.
An audit released Thursday by state Auditor Susan Montee’s office said that of 187,033 cases in which more than $1,000 in back child support was owed as of June 30, 2006, the amount owed was incorrect in 27 percent of the cases. That conclusion was based on a sample of findings from 209 cases.
In some cases, the audit found, record-keeping was so far off that parents were shown as owing $309,409 to $454,647 more than they actually owed. Conversely, parents in some cases owed as much as $55,691 more than the department’s records showed.
“It’s extremely sloppy,” Montee said of the division’s system of tracking back child support. “It’s just a total inattention to making sure these numbers are right.”
The result, she said, is that unjustified enforcement actions against some parents — like paycheck deductions or confiscation of passports — may be taking place while other parents behind in their child-support payments are escaping penalties.
A total of about $2.2 billion in child support is in arrears, representing about 240,000 cases, the audit said. But the audit only focused on cases in which the amount overdue totaled more than $1,000 because amounts less than that may not have been recorded in a timely manner...
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According to federal statute, those poor suckers who got shafted by the system can't get that money back. Oh well, that money comes from men, so it's compensation for years of patriarchal oppression, I supppose.
I can look at the single mother story in Salon and see women complaining about men who won't commit. Trying to figure out why we have soured on marriage shouldn't be that hard.
When more women start lobbying for legal and financial equity in marriage and divorce laws (and a small minority does), then maybe the institution will become more popular in the US.
Don't hold your breath, though, since the Nanny State seems to be the best husband for scores of women in America today.
Enjoy your cats/single motherhood, 70s feminists.
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Why?
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's wrong with having women in the space program?
BTW, the Soviets also had many, many women working in factories, operating heavy machinery and slaving away in the fields.
I think that would be good here, too, as well as a celebration for the first all-female coalminer crew mentioned earlier.
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Space shuttle, space station
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Operating those two rattletraps is dangerous and risky as well.
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Mutually offensive joke
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why can't women parallel park?
Because men are always telling them 4 inches is a foot....
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And if you're a mainstream American feminist...
[Read the article: Why aren't boys allowed to be victims?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You applaud the denial of state funds to shelters for any male over 12.
You believe in patriarchal oppression of women and girls. The victims stop there.
You dismiss the data describing the "boy crisis" in our schools.
You applaud "positive discrimination" against boys as a result of Title IX.
It's all part of the same mindset in matriarchal America.