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If they really wanted to show some commitment to visitation, they would 
tie the child support to the visitation.  They would allow the cost of 
visitation (gas, milage, plane fare, hotel bills...) to be deducted from 
child support payments.

Instead they promise to inconvenience my kids by taking away their 
mother's driver's license.  In most parts of Colorado there is minimal 
public transit, the nearest grocery store is 2 miles away, and the 
residential housing is 25 miles from the office complexes.  What 
self-respecting father can, with a streight face, say "I want you to keep 
my kids in prison because I can't see them".

The only "adaquate" mass transit in the Regional Transportation District 
(RTD) of the Greater Denver area runs from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM.  Taking 
away a man's driver's license effectivly makes him a prisoner in his own 
home and empowers him to ONLY commute to work.  Attending a social event 
past 10:00 PM will cost you a $50-$100 Cab Ride.

Next they will be strapping "prison boxes" to men's ankles to make sure 
they don't leave the apartment after 8:00 PM.  That gives them just 
enough time to do the laundry.  This is already a common practice for DUI 
(Drunk Driving) offenders.  We can also get printouts of their "security 
pass" usage to make sure that they are in by 8:00 AM and don't leave 
before "6:00 PM".  Just in time to catch the shuttle from 
Boulder/Longmont back to Denver.  By the time they get back to Aurora 
it will be about 7:45 PM.  Won't it be fun being an electronically 
monitored SLAVE?

	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
	http://cnj.digex.net/~rballard



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Wed Feb  7 01:46:34 1996