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It is a repeatedly proven scientific fact that married* men live longer lives than single men, and married* women live shorter lives than single women.

A popular hypothesis from this fact is that on average married men have less stressful lives than single men, and single women have less stressful lives than married women. It may be interpreted that overall women look after men better than men look after women. This speculation is not important to your point. What is important is that a man with a family to provide for is overall less stressed, and more healthy than a man alone with no family to provide for.


*married/partnered/de-facto

Just don't suggest that an individual man has or will eaten his wife as the suggestion of cunnilingus may, in fact, be actionable.

Better that than the dead muff munching I referenced.

Dodged a bullet there.

As well as unwilling, and likely bitter, to boot.

But it's really "damned if you do, damned if you don't." I dunno...there's no solution that appeals to me in the least here.

However, the state is uninterested in the father's "readiness" to parent the child and unwilling to accept a self-assessment of how many resources he can spare. The father can abdicate any active role in raising the child provided he at least passively supports the child via deductions from his paycheck.

This works in both directions (spoken as a father who receives child support payments from a mother who rejected her parenting role) so there is no inherent unfairness to this. Once the child is born, it is the responsibility of both parties to contribute. This is all the state is concerned with: there is a child and it must be supported. One can argue that the abortion-making decision itself is unfair but, unfair or not, it's a reflection of biological realities. Until the day comes where the father can abort the child by personally undergoing an operation, that decision will remain firmly with the mother. It is not in the state's best interest to cut support for the child by the parents in the interest of over-riding the biological realities of pregnancy.

We have a cross thread posting policy?

Yes, according to a poster that's already got his panties in a wad.

Also, what Ari said.

thats why i don't do crosswords either.

HAHAHA you do what ever you feel like doing, only takes me a couple seconds to change it back once I realize it.


Unless you have powers that can stop me from doing that....in which case I implore you not to invoke those powers at the same time.

Edited, Feb 8th 2011 11:17pm by rdmcandie

Kind of like that Rogaine commmercial I guess?

And no, I can't really prevent anyone from changing their sig short of doing something permanent.