case in point: a woman finds herself pregnant and announces that she is going to bring the child to term. her male friend objects. she then states, “I don’t want a thing from you”.

2 months after the birth he is served paternity papers.

her ‘completely independent’ choice, his responsibility.

To say that you cannot “give” women choice and responsibility is insulting to women. The problem is that this rarely happens — women are NOT forced to be responsible, and I blame men for that. Men continue to defer to women and treat them like little girls; women respond by living down to those low expectations. Goldgivers attract golddiggers. VAWA authors encourage false rape accusations. I could go on and on. In life, we reap what we sow.

These are incompatible with the current evolutionary status of the female psych…and as you point out, there’d be no money in it (which is the biggest blocker to actual legal EQUALITY).

To those of the old generation who currently run the gov’t of America: I am man, now hear ME roar!

or was stepford a real place????

We’ve had several examples in the recent months of high profile men who are going through divorce. Jordan, Kidd, etc. Michael Strahan actually signed a prenup signing over 1/2 of joint marital assets and 20% of his income. They all will be paying through the nose.

It should be a lesson for all of us.

I think the five steps proposed above are excellent. Alimoney should certainly be abolished. If people – male or female – still choose to have financially dependant spouses, instead of alimoney, a prenuptual agreement can take care of those who have willingly surrendered their independence and no one’s free will gets violated.

“I heartily accept the motto, — “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more readily and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”

“The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw, or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others, as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and officeholders, serve the State chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be “clay,” and “stop a hole to keep the wind away,” but leave that office to his dust at least“

“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse.”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/19.htm

Recal that Thoreau was imprisoned for not paying a tax that was used for something immoral.

I suppose child support a form of taxation (albeit a divorce tax) as the government orders men to pay an exact amount at certain times.