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Sadly, divorce is a suicide risk, but if men really kill themselves over paying for their children, that's their funeral.
Right, suicide is merely the surest way of evading one's debts and says nothing about what the system has done to these men.
...not that she cares - acceptable wastage.
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If he has paid nothing when they eventually catch up with him, he should get the sort of walloping fine that means he may lose his car or home, even if he has a second family.
...so much for her concern about the welfare of his dependents.
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On becoming a single parent, a third of women have to give up work, most of them very unwillingly; they are still out of work two years later.
Use of the passive bvoice makes it sound as if motherhood were something that just "happened" to them, like puberty.
It should read: On choosing to become a single mother...
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Alas, it's not realistic politics ... but it's a neat way of considering what is still needed to redistribute from wallet to handbag and redress the injustice of the gross undervaluing both of the jobs women do and of their unpaid time rearing the nation's children.
"From each according to his ability..."
I also like the double-think that treats parenthood as just another job when it suits the purpose.
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But just how many young women are swatting away good men who are begging them to settle into domesticity in their early 30s? It is the everlasting boy syndrome to blame.
I want what I want when I want it.
...and any refusal to accommodate reveals male pathology.
...simply vile.