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The Working Mom and Custody Issues
| Mon, 11-30-2009 - 8:24pm |
There was an article in this month's Working mother magazine about wrking mom's losing custody to SAHD's.

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Why exclude rape? That's the risk I'm most concerned about when thinking about my girls vs. the boys.
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Yep, and he could find out some years later, possibly having to pay back child support if the mother was on welfare, after missing all those years of his child's life. I know someone that happened to. There are definitely many risks on both sides when it comes to teen pregnancy.
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If you think that male brawn protects one against violence, than you do have do have some
It's so far not playing out like this with my kids/stepkids. And I was only speaking for the way I approach risky situations with my own kids/stepkids, not all children. I'm the size of an average 6th grader, even now as a 39 yo woman I sometimes get mistaken for a kid. My girls appear taking after me. My ODD's father is also very short, my YDD is very small for her age and is small compared to her twin brother. My dh is 6'3" and so far his boys and the son we have together are already, or are projected to take after him.
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My comments in post #751 weren't related to anything you said about you, your kids, middle school, or any supposed as yet unexplained double standard (I am not even sure the double standard was about you, she said "it might be a double standard" and then additionally mentioned you have boys). It came from frogslippers saying *she* is more cautious with her dd than her ds, and that comment took off on a new tangent.
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I agree that the girls have that additional medical/physical risk - but as a parent I would be just as concerned about my son causing his girlfriend the additional risk as I would be my daughter experiencing that risk. So same rules for my son because I have concern for anyone he might impregnate, I'm equally motivated to prevent such a thing regardless of gender.
I once heard someone make the argument that their son should be allowed to do whatever because he was a boy even at a young age, and their daughter should not be allowed such freedoms in relationships at a young age because it would not be proper, and I just thought, gosh, you want all this respect for your own daughter but you won't teach your sons to have respect for their girlfriends? And what if all the boys the daughter dated had parents who felt the same way about their sons?
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