| DarthVolod said: To put it bluntly, his parents (or more like "parent") were awful, and they had no business raising a child. The child that "needs a father" would be better off with parents that actually want children ... not people who are strong armed by a female centric legal system into fatherhood at gunpoint. Child support is not an "easy way out." His wages will be garnished for the next eighteen years (thank god he didn't marry her otherwise he would have alimony on top of that). Failure to pay can lead to prison terms ... anything that will likely lead to prison time is not getting off easy in my opinion. Even if we assume the best case scenario (he manages to pay child support while still maintaining a decent life) he will have this huge burden going forward that he will not emerge from until he is in his forties. It is a sad state of affairs that this is what passes for justice and equal treatment under the law. Reverse the genders of the situation and she would have all the options I highlighted at her disposal. |
Now is a good opportunity step up, break the cycle and be a good father for his child.
Sure, sometimes a child can be better off with a surrogate parent but the biological parent is still the better option. It's cruel to put the child through years of self doubt trying to figure out why his father thought he was too much of a burden to care for him.
It happened, it can't be undone, he is resposible, should the child be punished for it?
If the mother doesn't want to be a mother then the father has the option to take custody of the child and get the mother to pay child support. It all takes a lot more time with the current system then the other way around, yet he still has the options. Apart from abortion ofcourse. Equal treatment doesn't work in this case where one party grows a human life inside them.
