Wow! I haven't read nor heard this but Maureen Dowd drives home a gut wrenching point:

[geminifemini]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/dowd-Of-Mad-Men-Mad-Women-and-Meat-Loaf.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

What mostly caught my attention was that fact that a rapist can claim parental rights in 31 states.

My brain is having a hard time digesting this.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. How is that even possible?

[Angry Dragon]

2. It is the law

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. I meant, "How is that law and attitude even possible in this day and age?"

[Angry Dragon]

9. They could be old laws and nobody thought it was important to change

or most people forgot about them

[Jim__]

11. Those 31 states do not have a law explicitly barring the rapist from seeking parental rights.

From the Atlantic Wire - an article from August:

Prewitt, herself a rape survivor who gave birth to a daughter as a result of her attack, explains that 31 states have no laws that bar rapists from seeking custody or visitation rights. For Prewitt that astounding fact is personal. Her rapist attempted to get custody of her daughter, "but thankfully I got lucky and his visitation rights were terminated," she said, according to a profile of her by The Am Law Daily's Brain Baxter. She added: "I'm not sure I would have made the decision I did had I known I might be tethered to my rapist for the rest of my life."

[Kolesar]

12. Therefore, a judge could force the "father" away from the family, forever

Is that correct? It sounds just.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Ouch!

That's tough to even try to think about.............

[safeinOhio]

4. Every sperm is sacred, even that from the rapist

[RC]

6. A consequence of paying child support.

Myself, I think a permanent restraining order from seeing either the mother or the child, along with mandatory child support would be more fitting. The rapist is a family member? Well too bad. He's gonna be missing at family gatherings.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. I would think that the laws that keep sex offenders away from children would apply here.

[kooljerk666]

8. 31 states allow visitation..........

Mass man seek visits with child of teen woman he raped...
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-09-26/news/34108474_1_visitation-rights-rapist-child-support

#1 states allow rapists visitation.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/08/31-states-grant-rapists-custody-and-visitation-rights/56118/


I used to be a rw bigot fascist skeeve & that group response to any other group or person who crossed you was easy, Fucking Kill them.

Now the only group that I hate is 1% rich bastards & any group that forments racism & violence against "THEM!" (no not the giant ants).

I got out of this crap 25+ years ago but I still must think like them about dealing with conflict, but obviously I am a good boy or else I would be in jail or dead.

Check out castration techniques in Thailand, I was looking for the one where a battered wife cuts if off, attaches it to a balloon & by by ballsack.... I could not find that specific one but Thai women are not taking a load of shit w/o fighting back.

http://www.amorouspropensities.com/archives/sex_crime/severed_penises.php

[whttevrr]

10. Very sad truth

WTF!?

I'm a guy (meaning I have no personal experience to reference regarding getting pregnant by rape) and I can't even wrap my mind around this.

I hope more women get elected to the legislative branch of government. We really need to change a lot of our laws.

[sharkman25]

13. I hear of people who robbed a house suing the owner because he tripped on a rug leaving house! n/t