If “any parent” whose child does not attend school is liable to a fine
(Mother in court over truant kids, September 7) why is only the mother
in court? Where’s the father of the 15 year-old who tragically took her own
life, whose mother got “no help at all”? Where’s the father of the runaway whose
mother’s household was busy and crowded? And the father of the 13 year-old whose
mother forced her to drive because she herself was drunk?
Rosemary McLeod reckons that “when abortions were impossible to get”
(Fathers and their youthful follies, same date), when pregnancy
happened “young men could shrug a woman off with no consequences”. As a matter
of fact, back then you’d never had read four stories of children abandoned by
their fathers in a single issue of the newspaper.
If only there were still “pompous family doctors” who refused the pill or
an abortion on moral grounds, there would be far fewer children now “of solo
mothers who’ll never know their fathers.”
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