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Yes, "customs matter" was

Yes, "customs matter" was the point I was trying to make with my example of an implicit contract.

I'm not sure if one can (or should be able to) explicitly override duties to children created through casual sex. Why should the duty of child raising fall exclusively to the mother? It takes (at least) two to tango.

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