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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Most housing requirements have exceptions that are strictly laid down in the rules. My sister's house is that if the student lives at home they don't have to live in. A student with a child is different than an engaged student or "don't wanna" student and the latter two will just have to deal with it.
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I agree a woman with a child is different, but since the main response had been there would be no issue as long as she was held to/could fulfill all the responsibilities of a sister, I was just trying to add a dimension to the conversation in terms of whether her not being able (although for valid reasons in her own right) to fulfill a chapter's housing requirement would be a consideration of her membership. Affording a house is a crushing responsibility for some chapters, particularly small ones or rebuilding ones and the bylaws I've seen that give exceptions (if any) for living in specify not just living "at home" but very specifically living "at home
with their parents". So again, I was just saying that on the face of it, most chapters won't have built-in, automatic exceptions for someone with a child, so it may not be just whether someone can attend events that factors in to whether she can fulfill a chapter's needs and requirements. Not trying to be difficult, just stirrin' up the pot with the un-fun reality that sometimes chapters make very hard decisions that don't seem fair because they absolutely have to.
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