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   From: sylvia@not.at.this.address   
      
   Robert Morpheal wrote:   
      
   > I wish you would reconsider.   
   >   
   > Society desparately needs geniuses.   
      
   > Do you have any idea how rarely I have said I would love to have   
   > a child ?  I am one of the most reluctant of men in that regard.   
      
   Well, it's all very romantic sounding, but as is so often the case with   
   romance, terribly impractical. There are minor issues such as my being   
   on the other side of the world from you (I think), happily married, and   
   too old to be having more children anyway.   
      
   As for you having children...   
      
   I happen to have been reading a new report into the Australia Child   
   Support system.   
      
   Many countries in the developed world are having problems maintaining   
   their populations, and they probably need more geniuses, even if they   
   don't appreciate them. However, the child support system, wherever you   
   are, will confiscate a large part of your income if you should separate   
   from the mother of your child. You'd be taking one hell of a risk if you   
   got some woman pregnant. My advice to you would have to be "don't".   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)