Interesting Article on Custody
This is an old article from '93, and I'm afraid the ideas presented
didn't take. I do like this man's take on "Joint Legal Custody" though -- truly a joke that will in time become a politically incorrect term as soon as enough people figure out what it really means. http://patriot.net/~crouch/flnc/nocus.html - Ron ^*^ |
Interesting Article on Custody
Werebat wrote:
This is an old article from '93, and I'm afraid the ideas presented didn't take. I do like this man's take on "Joint Legal Custody" though -- truly a joke that will in time become a politically incorrect term as soon as enough people figure out what it really means. politically correct and incorrect to me are two terms that are overused. I look at politically correct as something a politician mouths just to get elected, whatever side of the aisle he sits on. "Defending America's Borders", "Traditional Family Values", any one of a thousand conservative cliches can be just as politically correct if the politician is just saying them with no concept or ideas behind them. |
Interesting Article on Custody
John Meyer wrote: Werebat wrote: This is an old article from '93, and I'm afraid the ideas presented didn't take. I do like this man's take on "Joint Legal Custody" though -- truly a joke that will in time become a politically incorrect term as soon as enough people figure out what it really means. politically correct and incorrect to me are two terms that are overused. I look at politically correct as something a politician mouths just to get elected, whatever side of the aisle he sits on. "Defending America's Borders", "Traditional Family Values", any one of a thousand conservative cliches can be just as politically correct if the politician is just saying them with no concept or ideas behind them. True enough, but "politically incorrect" almost always means something that a public figure WON'T say if he wants to avoid scandalous ridicule or outrage. Right now "joint legal custody" is used partly to mollify the masses when fathers demand joint custody and might begin getting public opinion on their side. It's nothing more than a smokescreen that some official can throw up around the issue, smiling and saying, "but this state ALREADY has joint legal custody as the norm..." The author is saying that once enough people catch on to the meaninglessness of the term, those same officials won't use it because it will earmark them as equivocating weasels. And rightly so. - Ron ^*^ |
Interesting Article on Custody
Werebat wrote:
John Meyer wrote: Werebat wrote: This is an old article from '93, and I'm afraid the ideas presented didn't take. I do like this man's take on "Joint Legal Custody" though -- truly a joke that will in time become a politically incorrect term as soon as enough people figure out what it really means. politically correct and incorrect to me are two terms that are overused. I look at politically correct as something a politician mouths just to get elected, whatever side of the aisle he sits on. "Defending America's Borders", "Traditional Family Values", any one of a thousand conservative cliches can be just as politically correct if the politician is just saying them with no concept or ideas behind them. True enough, but "politically incorrect" almost always means something that a public figure WON'T say if he wants to avoid scandalous ridicule or outrage. Right now "joint legal custody" is used partly to mollify the masses when fathers demand joint custody and might begin getting public opinion on their side. It's nothing more than a smokescreen that some official can throw up around the issue, smiling and saying, "but this state ALREADY has joint legal custody as the norm..." Easy response there. "Look, I'm not applying to be the kid's LAWYER; I want to be the kid's PARENT. Comprehend?" |
Interesting Article on Custody
John Meyer wrote: Werebat wrote: John Meyer wrote: Werebat wrote: This is an old article from '93, and I'm afraid the ideas presented didn't take. I do like this man's take on "Joint Legal Custody" though -- truly a joke that will in time become a politically incorrect term as soon as enough people figure out what it really means. politically correct and incorrect to me are two terms that are overused. I look at politically correct as something a politician mouths just to get elected, whatever side of the aisle he sits on. "Defending America's Borders", "Traditional Family Values", any one of a thousand conservative cliches can be just as politically correct if the politician is just saying them with no concept or ideas behind them. True enough, but "politically incorrect" almost always means something that a public figure WON'T say if he wants to avoid scandalous ridicule or outrage. Right now "joint legal custody" is used partly to mollify the masses when fathers demand joint custody and might begin getting public opinion on their side. It's nothing more than a smokescreen that some official can throw up around the issue, smiling and saying, "but this state ALREADY has joint legal custody as the norm..." Easy response there. "Look, I'm not applying to be the kid's LAWYER; I want to be the kid's PARENT. Comprehend?" Sure, if you know what Joint Legal really means. Many men don't and don't figure out until much later that they've been misled and essentially "had" by their ex-wives and the system. Usually, though, it's just being used to mollify the public, with a show of "but we ALREADY offer men joint (omitting the word "legal") custody whenever they want it"... And the man who replies as you say above isn't going to get much sympathy from the public when the court makes a show of how they offered him joint (omitting the word "legal") custody but he refused it. It's a sort of shell game, verbal origami, whatever you want to call it -- but it's a weasel word phrase by any definition. - Ron ^*^ |
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