Antiseptic,

Firstly, my condom reference was in response to
your earlier sweepintg statement about your not liking
women's chances of being impregnated. This
I attempted to explain to you - and you got personal
with your "poor chap" references to my husband regarding
our sex life.

I'm pleased that you agree to depersonalize things.
Let's try to keep it that way.

Now back to the topic...

It's not what I expect or what you expect to be the
practice or the norm for other people. It is the
individual responsibility in a relationship to make
the decisions in their own lives and then take the
responibility based on those choices. Nobody goes
into a marriage or relationship expecting only the
one partner to bear the entire responsibility for
decisions or mistakes made. And as far as the
Family Law Court is concerned - I believe each case
is judged on the circumstances - and each case will
be different - but my understanding is that it is up
to the courts to protect the children when the adults
renege on their responsibilities.

Lexi, you really won't commit to an opinion, will you. How sad.

Antiseptic,

Nah. What I won't commit to is sweeping generalisations
regarding male/female relationships which is so subjective.
What is sad is that you don't seem to be able to
understand that. But then that's a problem I can't do anything
about.

Nobody is making generalisations, Lexi. We're talking about population trends. That means we're discussing things that happen to people you don't know, I do realise that, but those people exist nevertheless and the research from the people at Monash shows that they are having a difficult time finding willing prospective fathers to help them fulfil their biological urge to make babies.

Would you care to discuss the topic, or are you going to continue your display of injured egocentrism?

Either would be equally as amusing, although the former would be far more likely to provoke a conversation.

Antiseptic,

No offence - but I'm not interested in irrelevant
monologues.

Lexi:"I'm not interested in irrelevant monologues"

So why do you keep inflicting them on us?

If you don't feel up to discussing the topic like an adult, perhaps you'd be good enough to let we adults do so unmolested?

Lots of silliness to avoid thinking about a simple set of questions, don't you think? Year of practise avoiding borrowers' requests?