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T_igger_cs_30 · 03-28-2008, 10:16 AM

Bigfella Hi

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Well, you have two choices here.

1) Force people to live in unhappy marriages 'for the sake of the children' (seen it close up a few times - faggedabadit) OR
What the hell does the highlighted word mean?

2) make both parents accept that their emotional & financial responsibilities to their children don't end with the marriage.
In a perfect world, this would happen without cohersion.

This means that fathers who don't get custody still have to pay for the kids upbringing & it means that mothers who do have to respect the importance of the father.
I think this is a case of stating the obvious

If men want to be ashamed about anything it is that too many of them (though thankfully less & less) are still sulking about the fact that they have to share some fraction of their once untrammelled social power with women.
Why are we generalising "men" as ashamed? I have made mistakes, but ensured I met my financial and moral obligations, not because I had to, because I wanted to. This attitude of saying "men are ashamed" I doubt even exists, if a man chooses not meet his obligations to his children and his financial obligations from a failed marriage, then I doubt you will ever "shame" him about anything

Personally I LIKE living in a world where women consider themselves my equal & the law agrees. If this means that I have to work a bit harder to define my role in the world than my father or grandfather did then so be it.
I agree, and this makes you/us normal not special.