First, what this doesn't address is that if a woman chooses to have an abortion, the father cannot do anything to stop it, if he decides he wants to raise the child. This is a pretty complicated issue because I don't believe anyone has to right to take a capable parent's right to raise their child away. I also don't think it is fair to force a woman to see through a nine month pregnancy, just so the father can have his child.
Child support laws have existed for hundreds of years. Back before women could get jobs. Back before women could do anything, really. A man would have to pay for a child he fathered, because the mother could not. Of course now, that's not the case. I'm not saying let the mother fend for herself. But sooner or later a condom is going to break, and if a woman can't manage raising the child, she has other options, and that shouldn't include forcing the father to pay when neither of them planned on having the kid in the first place.
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This is a pretty complicated issue because I don't believe anyone has to right to take a capable parent's right to raise their child away.
I also don't think it is fair to force a woman to see through a nine month pregnancy, just so the father can have his child.
Child support laws have existed for hundreds of years. Back before women could get jobs. Back before women could do anything, really. A man would have to pay for a child he fathered, because the mother could not. Of course now, that's not the case.
I'm not saying let the mother fend for herself. But sooner or later a condom is going to break, and if a woman can't manage raising the child, she has other options, and that shouldn't include forcing the father to pay when neither of them planned on having the kid in the first place.
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This suit has all of the credibility of a "I know you are, but what am I?" t-shirt. Whether they're right or wrong, they're making things worse.
Have you been to their website? This is completely asinine.
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