Thursday, May 13, 2004
ID Cards Nonced my Child!
ID Cards must be a fucking unpopular piece of legislation in the Mother of all Parliaments as they're trying to attach every piece of legislation they can to it, so the Chief Whips can say to rebellious MPs, "if you don't vote for ID Cards you'are actually helping terrorists chop off people's heads AND feeling up children like you're the Crazy World of Arthur Brown!" Latest up, and touching on stuff I've mentioned before, Government- response to Victoria Climbié social services fuckup- database of all children in country- will keep details of such things as the sexual relationships of parents, their drug use and so on- won't even need to be absolute fact. So any poly parents out there who love their children but also like the occasional jazz cigarette, you're screwed. Anyone in a perfectly heteronormative relationship but who may look a bit odd and having a disagreement with your neighbours? You could be screwed too. I also assume this is Megan's Law by the back door.
In other news, Mother angry at daughter's secret abortion. We need to know more than we're given in this case, but I would say that generally speaking, I don't believe a mother should have an automatic right to know these sorts of things about their children. But it's also unclear as to the quality of the advice the girl got, did she only want the abortion because she was afraid of what her Mum would say if she found out? Did her Mum guilt-trip her into wanting to have the baby once she did find out? It's a messy situation that needs to be dealt with on a case by case basis, but I think it was right not to automatically inform the parent.
ID Cards must be a fucking unpopular piece of legislation in the Mother of all Parliaments as they're trying to attach every piece of legislation they can to it, so the Chief Whips can say to rebellious MPs, "if you don't vote for ID Cards you'are actually helping terrorists chop off people's heads AND feeling up children like you're the Crazy World of Arthur Brown!" Latest up, and touching on stuff I've mentioned before, Government- response to Victoria Climbié social services fuckup- database of all children in country- will keep details of such things as the sexual relationships of parents, their drug use and so on- won't even need to be absolute fact. So any poly parents out there who love their children but also like the occasional jazz cigarette, you're screwed. Anyone in a perfectly heteronormative relationship but who may look a bit odd and having a disagreement with your neighbours? You could be screwed too. I also assume this is Megan's Law by the back door.
In other news, Mother angry at daughter's secret abortion. We need to know more than we're given in this case, but I would say that generally speaking, I don't believe a mother should have an automatic right to know these sorts of things about their children. But it's also unclear as to the quality of the advice the girl got, did she only want the abortion because she was afraid of what her Mum would say if she found out? Did her Mum guilt-trip her into wanting to have the baby once she did find out? It's a messy situation that needs to be dealt with on a case by case basis, but I think it was right not to automatically inform the parent.
