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Dear Miss Manners: I am a teenage boy who apparently has impregnated a teenage girl...
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| March 1, 2015
| Miss Manners
Posted on 04/17/2015 12:07:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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A recent letter to Miss Manners helps document the point about how abortion makes men startlingly unaware of their own parental responsibilities. Miss Manners, pen name of Judith Martin, takes a simple and pitch-perfect approach.
To: Tax-chick
Since you are one to appreciate simplicity, even elegance of expression...
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:08:40 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.")
To: Mrs. Don-o
The sexual revolution is over - and men won.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:10:15 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Mrs. Don-o
The father needs to explain it to him.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:10:56 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Mrs. Don-o
A modern teen wrote “impregnated”?
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:12:23 PM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: Mrs. Don-o
And that’s why I keep it firmly in my pants.
Not having any STDs or children is entirely worth being celibate.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:12:36 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
To: ltc8k6
A modern teen wrote impregnated?Are you surprised he didn't say 'with child'?
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:13:14 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
To: PGR88
Oh really? Explain to me how I lost a home I bought BEFORE I was married to a divorce. I want to hear this...
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:15:04 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: ltc8k6
People slip into big-wordism when they’re scared or trying to impress their intended audience. I suspect this kid was doing both.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:16:09 PM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal by any other name...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
The order is date, marry, THEN have kids.
Dumba$$
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:16:17 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: PGR88
The “Sexual Revolution” is bad for all men and all women in the long run. But good for a certain kind of shallow selfish pr-— in the short run.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:16:42 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.")
To: Mrs. Don-o
Frankly, even though she is right, this boy deserves an attorney also. That is the person who should set him straight.
Saying that the girl’s attorney should fill him in suggests that’s where he needs to get his information.
That is a severely flawed response.
The boy is very wrong to think he should be able to demand the girl get an abortion. He should be responsible. HIS attorney should fill him in.
Would this columnist also suggest a man get his advice from his wife’s divorce attorney? Good grief.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:19:37 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I think men have always been aware of parental responsibilities if they get someone pregnant ... that's why so many of them are pro-abort, so they can make their little problem go away.
That said, if he's under 18 can he be held responsible?
To: DoughtyOne
“The boy is very wrong to think he should be able to demand the girl get an abortion.”
Right, everyone knows only women have “reproductive freedom”.
To: DoughtyOne
I would not want to contribute one iota to the idea that this morally miniscule male should take an adversarial approach against his own child, which is what “lawyering up” entails.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:26:44 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("God bless the child that's got his own." - Billie Holiday)
To: ltc8k6
A modern teen wrote impregnated?Guess he didn't see the movie "knocked up"
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:27:30 PM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh really? Explain to me how I lost a home I bought BEFORE I was married to a divorce. I want to hear this...
Did you OWN it free and clear before you were married?
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:28:10 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:28:40 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Boogieman
It's better to have equal responsibility than equal irresponsibility.
Equal rights would mean that nobody can walk away from or abort their parental responsibility.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:29:19 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("God bless the child that's got his own." - Billie Holiday)
To: Lizavetta
>>That said, if he’s under 18 can he be held responsible?
Oh yeah, I was teaching at a high school with a high teen pregnancy rate and those girls went after the boys as soon as they turned 18.
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posted on
04/17/2015 12:29:22 PM PDT
by
struggle
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