Her lover got murdered by vampires and was a cop... and if he's supposed to be Robin's father, then there would be pension benefits and such for the him. I just...
*pshaw* In the Whedonverse there are no savings accounts or life insurance policies, not even for single parents of minors (looking at Joyce!)
Actually, SororitySarah and I were having that exact conversation the other night about financial difficulties only existing when they're convenient for the writers but otherwise they are written off with "stylish yet affordable" jokes. Of course, the Human Services apparently don't work in any semblance of reality in the Whedonverse either... but that's a whole other rant that will be forever swimming about in the darkest corner of my soul.
I get that Joyce was self-employed and maybe didn't have the most or best life insurance, but surely she had some plus medical (maybe I'm being naive because I know a lot of people who have neither) because it just seems unlikely that she had enough life insurance to cover medical bills from brain surgery and a funeral... yet had no medical insurance at all to cover the former? Also, where in God's name was Hank Summers? Hello, non-existent Whedonverse child support! *head-desk*
Were they married, though? If not, would Nikki even qualify for his pension? (Assuming he hadn't been retconned out of existence, because God forbid anyone in the WHedonverse have a halfway decent father...)
Nikki wouldn't qualify for his pension, but Robin would (if you pardon the pun). I know that they didn't have DNA paternity testing in the 1970s, but they did have blood phenotyping; plus, if he had friends on the force willing to say that he and Nikki were an item at the time of Robin's conception, it might make things easier than the testing. Hell, Robin could have gotten scholarships for children of fallen police officers (again, assuming that Lee hasn't been retconned out of the Whedonverse)... But who needs fathers when we can just write them off as unwanted one-night-stands?
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*pshaw* In the Whedonverse there are no savings accounts or life insurance policies, not even for single parents of minors (looking at Joyce!)
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I get that Joyce was self-employed and maybe didn't have the most or best life insurance, but surely she had some plus medical (maybe I'm being naive because I know a lot of people who have neither) because it just seems unlikely that she had enough life insurance to cover medical bills from brain surgery and a funeral... yet had no medical insurance at all to cover the former? Also, where in God's name was Hank Summers? Hello, non-existent Whedonverse child support! *head-desk*
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