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To: dubyajames
Good article. Fair and balanced re the obligations of both parents to their co-created offspring.

One question. How would a Liberatarian go about ensuring that parents meet their obligations to their children? Or would they?
28 posted on 05/20/2002 6:37:12 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

We of the Libertarian Party are still assembling our famed "Shun List" which you can carry around with you always once it gets published. Keep an eye out at our website: www.lp.org/shunlist.html.

36 posted on 05/20/2002 6:54:00 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: Lorianne
Fair and balanced

Umm, it was a anti-abortion advocacy piece.

47 posted on 05/20/2002 7:08:48 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: Lorianne
How would a Liberatarian go about ensuring that parents meet their obligations to their children?

It is impossible to ensure that parents do anything remotely of the sort -- I don't care what form of society you live in. How do you ensure a crack-whore on the streets of Detroit meets parental obligations?

Parents do not own their children. Children have the same rights against harmful aggression as adults, and therefore ANYONE may rightly come to their aid. Societal structures exist to help ensure that those coming to the aid are not at cross-purposes to each other -- and that they aren't acting in a predatory manner.

Therefore parents who are harming or sufficiently neglecting their children simply forego the access to the stewardship of their children -- it would be little different than today.

52 posted on 05/20/2002 7:14:07 PM PDT by jlogajan
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