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TheAmazingIdiot meant that there is no way for a man to unilaterally give up parental rights and also not pay child support. Assume, for instance, that there's
by waqf 16y ago
TheAmazingIdiot meant that there is no way for a man to unilaterally give up parental rights and also not pay child support. Assume, for instance, that there's no husband in the picture, and that the woman wishes to keep the child and would be happy to receive child support payments.
Then the man has no option other than to pay child support. A woman cannot be forced into this situation, because she can abandon the child without penalty.
- Mz 16y agoThere is some truth to that. But from what I have read, after a divorce, a third of all men pay no child support, a third pay part of what they are supposed to pay, and only a third pay child support in full (in short, I think there is so much social pressure on men about this in part because men can and do walk away from parental responsibilities much more often and much more easily than women typically do). As a woman who really sees this issue quite differently, I don't imagine this is the right audience to share some of my views on the matter (especially with having thrown up last night and not slept enough yet). Peace.