Judge offers deadbeat dads choice

[Lady Sidhe]

Judge offers choice of jail or vasectomies to deadbeat dads.

http://biz.yahoo.com/law/040610/5bca...a1ddc8c_1.html

"Similar cases are already percolating. A March 31 decision by Monroe County, N.Y., family court Judge Marilyn O'Connor ordered an allegedly drug-addicted homeless couple to stop having children. The case, In the matter of BobbiJean P., No. NN 03626-03, was a first in New York. The couple's four children were placed in foster care last year and the woman is pregnant again. The judge determined that they should be given free family planning to prevent future pregnancy.

The 35-year-old mother is identified in court papers only as Stephanie. Rodney Evers, 54, is the father of three of the four children, including a 6-year-old boy. The younger children, ages 4, 2 and 1, tested positive for cocaine at birth.

In a 12-page opinion, [Judge] O'Connor rejected the argument that having unlimited children is a constitutional right, saying that the court must be allowed to balance the interest of privacy with those of the society that has to raise neglected children."


I think the same option should be offered to the women, since they can be just as irresponsible as the men.


Sidhe

edited to add quote.