Risk management

[mmcirvin]

You know, one of the problems with becoming a parent is that it gives you an extremely strong reason not to participate in massive civil disobedience that could result in your doing serious jail time, even when a really good candidate appears.

I suppose I was never cut out to be the rebel badass anyway.

Comments

[muffyjo]

Yeah, well, maybe the only rebellion you have to lead will be in the stars. Speaking of which, I found this cool site I thought you'd enjoy

Interesting

[indyresolve.livejournal.com]

I was surprised how many states have these rules. I would have though it would fall along the red-state vs blue-state lines, but not quite. 44 Have some policy of notification or consent, with apparently some express or implied restriction against avoidance by transport of the minor. Even Massachusetts joins Alabama and North Dakota in requiring notice and consent by both parents of the minor female. Strange bedfellows indeed.

Re: Interesting

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Massachusetts, remember, is not just a very liberal state but also a very Catholic state, which sometimes causes it to skew two ways at once on sex-and-reproduction issues.

Re: Interesting

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...though I should hasten to add that given the range of attitudes among American Catholics today, even that has complex and sometimes contradictory effects.

As I said back when people were talking about the maps showing concentrations of people with church affiliations, the religious-secular divide in America doesn't even fall reliably among red state/blue state lines; it's a lot more complicated than that. The middle of the continent tends to be very religious, but that includes liberal Lutherans in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and super-conservative Protestants in Nebraska, and Mexican-American Catholic Democrats in southern Texas. The Northeast has a lot of Catholics; the Southeast is more secular than you think, but religious life there is overwhelmingly dominated by right-wing evangelical, Pentecostal and fundamentalist churches. And the Sagebrush Rebellion area, the libertarian-Republican West between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, is actually pretty secular except for the heavily Mormon areas in Utah and Idaho.