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Embrace the change : Comments
By Jane Caro, published 12/7/2006From 7UP to 49UP times have certainly changed, and for women it has been in a big way.
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But not before you tell us what the sisters plan to do about righting some of the wrongs that are preventing both genders from realising their potential in this age of enlightenment you speak of. Men as protector-providers made great effort to ensure other men toed the line. If we are to move beyond the current acrimonious impasse, what are our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters proposing in the interest of equity for the new caring, nurturing, men in their lives.
Will they be championing equal residency post divorce perhaps? Adding (not just taking away) equity in no-fault divorce? Promoting child support formulae that include an assumption of equal capacity to earn, care, responsibility for costs, accountability in spending?
Can we perhaps start with Paternity Fraud? What will women do to help stamp out this abhorrent practice? Acknowledging it as a serious crime, and supporting commensurate recompense, would be a significant step forward from the current strategy of playing down the single-digit estimated percentages - incidence rates that are somehow insignificant or justifiable. Let’s test for it at every birth, so that we all know how exactly insignificant!
People, can we all fast-forward to today (from some distant past where women suffered and men didn’t), try updating our laws and utilising existing technology to solve some simple everyday problems still seemingly classified as secret women’s business. What about reproductive rights? While 100,000 abortions take place every year, men are afforded no legal rights - either way! How could a man’s choice of equal conviction, be given no weight whatsoever against the mothers? This just sounds so archaic.
Perhaps some of these very things stand immovably in the way of progress for all.