WASHINGTON DIARY: THE SECOND WIVES CLUB

There are some matters we can all agree on: motherhood and apple pie--good; deadbeat dads--bad. That's why, in this time of fbi files and Little Rock, Arkansas, trials, the President decided last week to announce some new measures to collect child support, which include screening new employees who may owe money and penalizing welfare mothers who refuse to identify the fathers of their children.

But it seems there is an opposition group on every issue, and one has emerged in California that might be called the Second Wives and the Deadbeat Dads Who Love Them Club. The day after Clinton announced...

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