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Not really his fault. Child support is an outdated system with zero relevance today. He is the victim. If a woman is not prepared to care for her children, she
by testin0000001 11y ago
Not really his fault. Child support is an outdated system with zero relevance today. He is the victim.
If a woman is not prepared to care for her children, she doesn't need to have any. Equality under the law means that if she can't pay, she can give up custody of her children to the father or a relative or adoption.
- DanBC 11y agoIf he doesn't want to pay for children he can chose not to have any.
- testin0000001 11y agoExactly. Equality. He has no claim upon her (he can't force her to have children) and she has no claim upon him.
- alkonaut 11y agoThe child is already there. Neither of them can un-have the child. Having a child is both the parents accepting a responsibility to provide for the child in the future, regardless of whether they stay together. Obviously, the child support should be formed in such a way that as long as the children lives with both parents (either because they are together or because the child lives 50/50 in separate locations), there is no need for transfer of funds. If one parent wants to (or is forced to, e.g. after abuse) give up caring for the children (so the child lives e.g. 100% with the mother and 0% with the father) only then should that parent have to pay for child support. I'm not sure whether that is the way child support works in the US but it's pretty much the only reasonable way I can imagine.
- chc 11y agoOnce birth control has either failed or been neglected, men really have no choice in the matter. A man can't (and shouldn't be able to) choose whether a woman terminates her pregnancy.
- DanBC 11y agoThat's true. But, in keeping woth the tone of the post I was responding to, a man could chose to not have sex.