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The Philippines' forgotten generation
BBC ^ | 20 May 2014 | Staff

Posted on 05/22/2014 4:26:02 AM PDT by csvset

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To: Gay State Conservative; larryjohnson
African American fathers left their families behind? Who knew?

C'mon....are you saying that white guys would never have done that?

Hint: the answer is in the article.

("According to one estimate, a quarter of Amerasians in the Philippines are of African-American descent." - do the math)

21 posted on 05/22/2014 6:07:39 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: larryjohnson

Frequently they were there less than a month, and never knew they fathered a child.

Kind of like Baltimore, only across the ocean.


22 posted on 05/22/2014 6:08:15 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Teacher317

And this, oh scripturaly illiterate one, is why Paultards are made fun of.

When faced with a truth about sexual matters they don’t like libertines deny things that have been set to print for thousands of years...and imagine that nobody will have read the bible.


23 posted on 05/22/2014 6:15:57 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Moltke
Hint: the answer is in the article.

OK...but the question still stands: is the problem that our guys left babies behind or is the problem that our *black* guys left babies behind?

24 posted on 05/22/2014 6:38:02 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Clearly the former, IMHO.


25 posted on 05/22/2014 8:14:19 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: ExNewsExSpook

What was with the AF in sending slick sleevers to Korea? Young guys who never got laid were thrown into that sh—hole! My first supervisor in the AF actually married one and brought her to England. I will never forget this barely 5 foot nothing talking at this 6 foot guy like he was a piece of trash. I just stood there shocked that he would take that from that!


26 posted on 05/22/2014 8:36:55 AM PDT by gr8eman (There's no "R" in Warshington!)
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To: Teacher317
Moronic. There is no such "right", in law or in religion. Just your own baseless feel-good opinion.

Mine and William Blackstone - Book I Chapter 16

THE duty of parents to provide for the maintenance of their children is a principle of natural law ; an obligation, says Puffendorf, laid on them not only by nature herself, but by their own proper act, in bringing them into the world: for they would be in the highest manner injurious to their issue, if they only gave the children life, that they might afterwards see them perish. By begetting them therefore they have entered into a voluntary obligation, to endeavour, as far as in them lies, that the life which they have bestowed shall be supported and preserved. And thus the children will have a perfect right of receiving maintenance from their parents. And the president Montesquieu has a very just observation upon this head : that the establishment of marriage in all civilized states is built on this natural obligation of the father to provide for his children; for that ascertains and makes known the person who is bound to fulfil this obligation: whereas, in promiscuous and illicit conjunctions, the father is unknown ; and the mother finds a thousand obfsacles in her way ; --- shame, remorse, the constraint of her sex, and the rigor of laws ; --- that stifle her inclinations to perform this duty : and besides, the generally wants ability.

The municipal laws of all well-regulated states have taken care to enforce this duty : though providence has done it more effectually than any laws, by implanting in the breast of every parent that natural sopyn, or insuperable degree of affection, which not even the deformity of person or mind, not even the wickedness, ingratitude, and rebellion of children, can totally suppress or extinguish.

Ignorantia juris non excusat

The willful ignorance of our "teachers" have led us to abortion on demand and "gay marriage." Please tell me your not a teacher.

27 posted on 05/23/2014 7:22:14 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: PapaBear3625
I suppose you also want to jail all men who engage in non-marital sex? Do you want to jail the women too? If not, why not?

How about prostitutes who have had IUDs or other reliable birth control inserted?

We already jail prostitutes and those who solicit them. (They show it on cops all the time.)

Those who contract an obligation who are unable to fulfill it should be punished.

28 posted on 05/23/2014 7:41:28 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: ALPAPilot
We already jail prostitutes and those who solicit them. (They show it on cops all the time.) Those who contract an obligation who are unable to fulfill it should be punished.

So, by your words, you would be in favor of punishing women who become pregnant by some guy who she knows is unable to support a child.

What sort of punishment would you favor? Jail? Forced sterilization?

29 posted on 05/23/2014 8:17:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625
So, by your words, you would be in favor of punishing women who become pregnant by some guy who she knows is unable to support a child

. What sort of punishment would you favor? Jail? Forced sterilization?

If a women gets pregnant by consensual sex with a married man with children we should make her wear a scarlet A.

30 posted on 05/23/2014 8:41:18 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: gr8eman

The Air Force’s concern was filling billets, and if they had to send kids fresh out of tech school, so be it. Of course, that made it tougher for the line chiefs, shop supervisors and other maintenance personnel.

Kunsan was—and is—a tip-of-the-sword, front-line combat unit. If the balloon goes up in Korea, you need experienced hands to generate maximum sorties to blunt the NK attack, until reinforcements start showing up. It would be hard enough doing that in a chemo/bio environment, while dodging attacks by NORK special forces. But if the assistant crew chief is still going through upgrade training, or you’re having to take kids in the engine or avionics shop through upgrade, it becomes that much tougher.

In fairness, we didn’t see a lot of slick sleeves at the Kun during my day. In my organization (non-maintenance), our least-experienced troop was a Senior Airman waiting to pin on SSgt, and he had two previous tours under his belt. The Air Force also realized that off-base diversions could destroy a lot of kids, so there were assignment teams at AFPC that tried to keep first-termers out of there. But sometimes manning/availability dictated sending a kid fresh out of tech school. The smart ones stayed on base and kept their noses on the grind stone. The dumb ones—like the airman were court-martialed—lost their careers.

And it wasn’t just off-base. Twenty years ago, Kunsan was known as the last “wild life refuge” in the Air Force. I lived in a junior officers dorm with pilots from one of the F-16 squadron and you’d always see some cute, female airman leaving an officer’s room early in the morning. And, in one of the ultimate ironies from my tour, one of the biggest whore-mongers on the base was one of the JAGs. One of his colleagues told me that their office staff had voted him “most likely to die of AIDS.”

I was told that Kunsan became a much more “sober” place in the years after I left. I hope so.


31 posted on 05/23/2014 8:51:33 AM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: csvset

Mary Jane Stevens looking for her father when she was young.

32 posted on 05/23/2014 8:58:59 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ALPAPilot
If a women gets pregnant by consensual sex with a married man with children we should make her wear a scarlet A.

How about a woman who gets pregnant by a man who has no income which can be garnished, or by a man whose real name she didn't bother to find out, and whose whereabouts she has no knowledge of?

There are charming men in the "inner city" who have lots of kids (like Larry Luthor, who has fathered 23 kids by various women). There is no way to extract any meaningful amount of child support for each of the kids from this person.

Besides putting a scarlet S on the mothers, what is your suggestion for discouraging them from screwing charming-but-unemployed men?

33 posted on 05/23/2014 9:35:45 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: csvset

I’m sorry, but I have to put the blame on the soldiers and sailors. It comes down to one simple phrase: keep your dick in your pants.

I’m a field grade officer with 19 years in. Seen too many young dumb soldiers screw their lives up because they couldn’t follow the simple phrase above. No sympathy.


34 posted on 05/23/2014 9:58:20 AM PDT by strider44
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