Archive for November 28th, 2013
When Family Courts Can Do This, why even Bother to “Fix” them?”
I hope this article will show (and people’s attentions will hold long enough) that it’s time to focus on the structure and institutions of the courts, which have been long neglected by the very groups proclaiming (self-proclaiming) decade after decade to be sticking up for women.
“Terrifying to anyone who believes in personal rights and autonomy“
It’s Thanksgiving. I’m not getting my technically complex post up.*
The above link symbolizes the situation we are in, and why half-assed “reform the courts” measures simply are inappropriate. The system removes personal autonomy from MOST women who decide to become mothers, not just unwed ones. Anyone who doesn’t stay married is at risk from this situation. Any woman who becomes pregnant and delivers a baby is at risk from this situation.
It is being framed as a womens’ rights to personal life autonomy issue, which it is. I hope, however, it will also call attention to what a very real threat the family court system is to biological mothers’ personal autonomy and, when combined with the child support factor as well, also to their fathers’. It is at this point a public hazard and a contributor to public debt, that these things are even being hashed out in family courts at all.
The above link symbolizes the situation we are in, and why half-assed “reform the courts” measures simply are inappropriate. The system removes personal autonomy from MOST women who decide to become mothers, not just unwed ones. Anyone who doesn’t stay married is at risk from this situation. Any woman who becomes pregnant and delivers a baby is at risk from this situation.