Re: [Off-Topic] "Curfews"
On 1 Jun 96 at 21:59, Duncan Frissell wrote:
I'm afraid that some courts have explicitly held that "the child does not have a right to liberty but only a right to custody." That is old law, however. Kids have lost many rights recently too including gun rights, etc.
....which dates back to laws that said women and children were mens' possessions. Very archaic. A case from several years ago comes to mind. Apparently a federal(?) court ruled that a 16-yr-old girl's parents were in the legal right to burn her krshna books and ban her from practicing it. [There was a protest in downtown SF sometime in 1989 or '90 about this.] --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Deranged Mutant wrote:
....which dates back to laws that said women and children were mens' possessions. Very archaic.
I've heard this claim for years. While it may be true, I don't recall anything in my legal training that would support it with respect to Anglo-American jurisprudence. Can anyone provide a citation (an original source, please, not some radical feminist revisionist writings) that sheds light on this curious belief? S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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