5 Legal Rights Women Have That Men Don’t (primarily USA focused)

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Jlaff said:

Why do people think men have no choices? If the mother doesn't want the child (not meaning abortion) the father has a right to full custody or putting the kid up for adoption. If he gets custody he would also get child-support from the mother. You got be kidding yourself if you think that women who put up for adoption or abort their child aren't thought of as cowardly.

So you don't see what's wrong with what I've bolded there?

Your facile approach to this whole issue betrays your lack of ability for critical thought. In your mind, 9 months of pregnancy is of equal worth to whatever uncapped financial obligation is imposed on a father? An obligation that in some jurisdictions can extend to 22 years, and may amount to as much as millions in child support? Is the father some sort of tortfeasor in your mind that must compensate the mother by way of "damages" through support now for impregnating her? Is every woman who brings a child to term not doing so willingly in this millenium?

Unequal treatment by the state has been judicially defined as "imposing a burden or witholding a benefit" from/on one class of person and not another ("class" being sex, sexual orientation, race, marital status, etc.) see Big M Drug Mart Canadian Supreme Court. If a custodial parent is not required by the state to provide their child with progressive financial support where that amount is tied to that parent's income, but a non-custodial parent is,  you have an unequal burden and thus discrimination and unequal treatment. I won't even get into the injustice of failing to provide fathers with a "legal abortion", but clearly I would agree with those who oppose your view on that issue.

Please find me the case where a single mother making 6 figures was jailed for buying her children's clothes at Walmart or depriving them of an Xbox One AND a PS4.

My approach is not facile. If what I said in that post seemed an understatment of the sitution it is because I have already spoken in this thread often and expressed deeper sentiment and reasoning. Not going to repeat everything I said again in every post. 

It's not just 9 months that woman has an finacial obligation to a child. Do women not have to support their kids where you live, only the men? Is there a case where a woman owed nothing but the man did? Just so you know my mother had to pay my father child support when he had custody of me. One having custody already doesn't equal one not having custody so why would you expect the way support is dictated would be the same for both? Do you not see the difference between one who directly feeds, clothes, takes to school, to the hospital, and provides shelter and one who writes a check?

What does your last sentence even mean or imply?