# andymurph64, what decade do you live in? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 9, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andymurph64-what-decade-do-you-live-in/206463 "2003-10-09T12:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![andymurph64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@andymurph64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andymurph64)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andymurph64-what-decade-do-you-live-in/206463/21 "2003-10-17T14:25:19Z")
Again… You seem to be confusing my personal beliefs with how I believe the world works. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andymurph64-what-decade-do-you-live-in/206463/22 "2003-10-17T21:04:11Z")
And you seem to be seeing in my posts only what you want to see. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andymurph64-what-decade-do-you-live-in/206463/23 "2003-10-18T08:47:19Z")
A daughter getting pregnant really is not in itself that much different from a son geting someone else’s daughter pregnant. Sure, if my daughter gets pregnant as a teenager there might be a couple of differences - I’m not likely to have my son’s pregnant girlfriend move in. But I would no more approve of my son failing to support his child than I would approve of my daughter failing to suport hers, and I would make up for my son’s inability to provide support in exactly the same way that I would make up for my daughter’s. The parents who are more worried about a daughter getting pregnant than about a son getting someone else’s daughter pregnant are more worried about one than the other _those parents_ will react differently depending on whether it’s a son or a daughter, just like a family I once knew who constantly complained about the daughter’s ex-boyfriend not paying child support- but never said a word to their son about not paying his. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andymurph64-what-decade-do-you-live-in/206463/24 "2003-10-18T08:47:19Z")
A daughter getting pregnant really is not in itself that much different from a son geting someone else’s daughter pregnant. Sure, if my daughter gets pregnant as a teenager there might be a couple of differences - I’m not likely to have my son’s pregnant girlfriend move in. But I would no more approve of my son failing to support his child than I would approve of my daughter failing to suport hers, and I would make up for my son’s inability to provide support in exactly the same way that I would make up for my daughter’s. The parents who are more worried about a daughter getting pregnant than about a son getting someone else’s daughter pregnant are more worried about one than the other _those parents_ will react differently depending on whether it’s a son or a daughter, just like a family I once knew who constantly complained about the daughter’s ex-boyfriend not paying child support- but never said a word to their son about not paying his. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andymurph64-what-decade-do-you-live-in/206463.md?page=1)