Posted on 04/17/2015 12:07:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a teenage boy who apparently has impregnated a teenage girl. She says she's in love with me still, but also she will not get an abortion and insists that I pay support. I think this is all mood swings. How do I support her morally but not monetarily?
GENTLE READER: That is neither a moral nor a legal position. Miss Manners trusts that the young lady's lawyer will explain that to you.
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I'm not being sarcastic.
Well, with regard to stoning, maybe a little. Maybe just a good stiff pelting?
But folks are looking at this from the wrong side.
Moral hazard, and all that.
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Again, very glad to hear you are doing good. And thank you again for bringing your wit and wisdom and good common sense to things....
Even when we disagree, sometimes I mutter under my breath “well,, dammit, I guess she’s really kinda right,,,”
I'll be out all day and not posting. Sometimes I have a real life ... o)
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