Those bastards!
I spoke with Eric Letts a few months ago. He was the nicest lawyer I've talked to so far. He really understands the issue. He told me it goes back to the "bastard laws" in England.
The early Virginia plantation bourgeoisie (1600's) originated Bastard Bonds that involved horrific punishments of the mother. Also, no money changed hands to complete the transactions: they traded in tobacco. The goal was to extract free labour through denying marriage and reproduction rights to "bond labourers" who were not yet enslaved for generations. Virginia's bastard laws paved the way toward chattel slavery. Today, all 52 states have evolved their bastard laws into laws that appropriate child maintenance payments from welfare mothers using a system called "pass-through and disregard".
Our Ontario 'FRO maintenance assignment bonds' are American in character. They severely punish the mother (often times making her ineligible for welfare) while reducing children to chattel (the child support awards that "make them whole" (or legitimate) are stolen, thereby reversing their legal status back to that of illegitimacy).
Everyone is very frustrated by our government's delay in eliminating this unfair policy. Eric Lett's class action suit is stalled. I say.. "Those bastards!". Stop the abuse. NOW.
Ref: The Invention of the White Race: The origin of racial oppression in Anglo-America
by Theodore W. Allen
Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage
According to Letts, "Ontario's family law has a patchwork history with roots in old Church law, Victorian poor laws, ancient common law and equitable principals. It is a poor set of rules and processes to deal with twenty-first century families and modern Canadian values." -Rabble
There is optimism that this court challenge will be the catalyst for Ontario to move quickly to update outmoded laws in order to help one of the most vulnerable groups in our community -- children living in poverty. Because after all, it's better late than never.Lett's is right. "Bastardy bonds, bastardy orders or maintenance orders were often kept [by EnglishChurches], showing the name of the father." We shouldn't focus too much on the English though, because bastard laws were developed in the United States too.
The early Virginia plantation bourgeoisie (1600's) originated Bastard Bonds that involved horrific punishments of the mother. Also, no money changed hands to complete the transactions: they traded in tobacco. The goal was to extract free labour through denying marriage and reproduction rights to "bond labourers" who were not yet enslaved for generations. Virginia's bastard laws paved the way toward chattel slavery. Today, all 52 states have evolved their bastard laws into laws that appropriate child maintenance payments from welfare mothers using a system called "pass-through and disregard".
Our Ontario 'FRO maintenance assignment bonds' are American in character. They severely punish the mother (often times making her ineligible for welfare) while reducing children to chattel (the child support awards that "make them whole" (or legitimate) are stolen, thereby reversing their legal status back to that of illegitimacy).
Everyone is very frustrated by our government's delay in eliminating this unfair policy. Eric Lett's class action suit is stalled. I say.. "Those bastards!". Stop the abuse. NOW.
Ref: The Invention of the White Race: The origin of racial oppression in Anglo-America
by Theodore W. Allen
Virginia Bastardy Laws: A Burdensome Heritage
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