Yea.
But I want to make clear that I think there are PLENTY of situations where the man being required to pay child support is probably completely justifiable. I'd rather we were still the sort of society where that became necessary FAR less often, but within the society we are today... if some guy just attempts to leave a woman high and dry with a kid after they had initially both been on board with the idea of having one, and/or after he's been helping provide for the raising of the kid since it's birth... and then he just decides to bail when the kid is 1 year old or 5 years old or 13 years old or whatever...
Then I can completely understand requiring him to help his child financially. However I don't think it would be apocalyptic if it wasn't required. And removing it might go a long way to making people take marriage more seriously again.
I'm not sure. I guess I need to devote some more thought to this.
Do you think child support is appropriate sometimes?
It seems like the situation you describe could just as easily be reversed with the woman abandoning the dad with the kids after X years. You should be held accountable for the commitments you take on, and so child support would be completely appropriate. I don't see any need for allowing someone to have unlimited take backs.
It just seems to me that spilling your semen in a woman is not a legally binding contract. And society certainly doesn't treat a woman welcoming a man's seed into her as a legally binding contract, and anyone who tried to claim such would probably be branded as a woman hater.
It seems to me that taking marriage seriously would fix a lot of problems.
Men are NOT treated, and are not held to special standards, when it comes to sex. Because it just takes ONE person to prevent a pregnancy. If you have unprotected sex, and expect the woman to worry about not getting pregnant - then you deserve whatever comes to you,.. and that mentality is what led to the unfair treatement of men in parenthood related trails.
This also goes for women. But, as a man, a true thinking smart and intelligent man, you figure out if you need to put on a rain coat or not. Scoffing and throwing that responsibility to woman means you lack responsibility and damn well deserve getting dragged through the coals.
Now that I think on this more it comes to me that the logic you are presenting is absurdly contradictory.
Why is having an abortion the sole responsibility of the woman? Because its her body.
So why should birth control also be the sole responsibility of the woman? BECAUSE ITS HER BODY.
If a woman doesn't want to get pregnant she uses birth control. Why do you think men should be responsible for women's bodies? I mean what is next? Should we not allow women in public without a male relative to look after them?
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