[nathanbedford]

We are all being dense here. Don't you get it? The issue is not individual rights but the right of the GROUP. The individual father is but a cypher, an inconvenient member of a despised group.

The mother, never mind how guilty individually, is not to be punished because she is a member of a higher ranking group.

Children, as a group, trump all other groups except the aged and those of the favored race.

The rights of an innocent father cannot count because, by definition, he cannot be innocent.

[BuddhaBoy]

Well put. Thank you.