10 Ridiculously Sexist and Dangerous Laws From Around the World

[moonbladem]

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[dw_10rosefan]

Last year in California, an appeals court overturned a rapist's conviction after a judge cited a standing 1872 law stating only married women could legally be raped.

What?! I am sorry but that is seriously f-ed up.

It is still legal in more than 30 states in the United States for a rapist to sue his rape victim for child visitation and custody if his forcible insemination resulted in a pregnancy.

Including Wisconsin *sighs*
IMO, the rapist should NOT have access to that child.

[belleweather]

This:

3. In the U.S., a child born outside of marriage can only be granted citizenship in certain cases relating to the father.

For example, when "a blood relationship between the person and the father is established by clear and convincing evidence" or "the father (unless dead) agreed, in writing, to provide financially for the person until they reach age of eighteen. Somehow, I doubt that millennials, for whom out-of-wedlock births are the norm, know that this might be the case where they live.
While not entirely untrue is HELLA fucking misleading

[amyura]

Number three doesn't make any sense. Anyone born on US soil is automatically a citizen-- the right keeps trying to change this, but it's definitely the law of the land. Are they talking about situations when a child is born outside the US, to a woman who's not a citizen when the father is a citizen but not married to the woman? That makes a little more sense-- I don't agree with it, but it's completely different than children of single mothers being born in the US.

[jslayeruk]

Err, *looks at no. 9*, one of these things is not like the others... :/