Eviction for Unmarried Couples With Kids?

[NMMNG]

The Morality Police are at it again. The new message? If you want to live in Black Jack MO and have more than one child you must be married. So much for trying to keep families together. :eyes:



BLACK JACK, Missouri - The city council has rejected a measure allowing unmarried couples with multiple children to live together, and the mayor said those who fall into that category could soon face eviction.

Olivia Shelltrack and Fondrey Loving were denied an occupancy permit after moving into a home in this St. Louis suburb because they have three children and are not married.

The town's planning and zoning commission proposed a change in the law, but the measure was rejected Tuesday by the city council in a 5-3 vote.

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The current ordinance prohibits more than three people from living together unless they are related by "blood, marriage or adoption." The defeated measure would have changed the definition of a family to include unmarried couples with two or more children.

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More: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12835020/?GT1=8199

[Fridays Child]

1. Just as an aside...

MI is the abbreviation for Michigan. Missouri's abbreviation is MO. :)

[NMMNG]

3. Whoops

:blush:

Thanks. Corrected.

[walkon]

2. I have seen this

several times. I believe the ordinance is misguided and probably unconstitutional but most likely was designed to stop immigrants from sharing housing. I know that's a big bugaboo around here right now.

What has not been clear is the parental relationship. If these are children of this man and woman aren't they then related by blood. Some have said that the couple is biracial but I can't find that in the report.

Missouri is as bad as the deep south when it comes to bigotry and racism - at least as evidenced by their elected officials. Especially the St. Louis region.

[Kailassa]

5. Laws like this seem to have originally been to eliminate brothels. n/t

[enlightenment]

6. The ordinance specifies marriage or adoption as the

appropriate familial affiliation -- just having kids together doesn't count, unless it's just one; apparently this doesn't kick in until there are 4 or more people in the home.

It's interesting that the demographics for the town suggest that there are many widows living there; presumably these are older women, not younger ones. It's not terribly uncommon for older women to live together to share expenses and chores, and for companionship as well. Under this ruling, if more than 4 of them are living in the same home, they're in violation of the ordinance.

I suspect that when the mayor sends out his goons to crack down on this "problem," as he has said he will, he may find himself in the position of evicting a bunch of little grey-hairs -- the backlash from that one should convince the city council to revisit this ordinance, again.

[Kailassa]

4. No boarding schools, no frat houses, no prisons ...

No more old folks homes ...

Even a monastery would be illegal there.