news flash: possible importance of fathers acknowledged

Hard to believe in this day and age, I know. But it's true! A potential change in the law shows that Kentucky lawmakers have at least more sense than a lot of their counterparts at the state and federal levels. Granted, that's not saying anything at all these days, but hey, at least a government could actually be getting something right for a change. If the bill passes, then more fathers could actually get to know and be involved in the lives of their children. What a novel concept! And one that seems just a few years overdue given the sad, sad state of our society (which I've addressed recently here). Unfortunately such an obviously needed legal change didn't even pass the committee vote the first time, so it's too early to suddenly declare that the state legislature as a whole is of sufficient intelligence to understand that a biological father's rights actually matter.

Of course, lest I get too excited about being a resident of said state, one could be quick to point out that the law is completely screwed up in its current form--and they'd be right. But a step in the right direction, however small, is more than I've come to expect out of pretty much any jurisdiction these days. So this counts as another item on the list of reasons to be glad my house is in Kentucky and not some wildly twisted state like, ahem, other states I've been spending time in recently.

HT: Glenn Sacks
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