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My own question here is this: Would you support giving a child support opt-out to men if the women that they had sex with promised (as in, this promise can be proven) to get an abortion in the event of an unplanned pregnancy and lied or changed their minds in regards to this later on? In such a scenario, all other men will be forced to pay child support. Also, all men who will get a child support opt-out in this scenario will give up all of their parental rights and be required to avoid all contact with these children of theirs at least until their children will reach age 18.
As for me, my own response to this question is Yes. Why? Because in such a scenario, I see such a man is being no more responsible for the existence of an actual child (as opposed to a zygote) than I would be if I loaned someone my baseball bat and then found out that this individual unexpectedly beat several people to death with this baseball bat of mine. After all, in both of these cases, another person made a decision which is different to the decision that one expected that he or she would make.
As for taxpayer money, if it's fair game to use taxpayer money to help financially support the families of the beating victims in the my scenario with the baseball bat above, then it's fair game to use taxpayer money to help take care of these men's children as well. Plus, can't taxpayer money also be used to help financially support the children that single women have with the help of sperm donors? If so, then I would like to point out that the men in this scenario of mine should simply be considered to be non-anonymous sperm donors.
Also, if a woman who doesn't like both abortion and adoption has a problem with my idea here, then she can avoid having sex with men who are personally okay with opting-out of paying child support and/or avoid promising to get an abortion in the event of an unplanned pregnancy. Indeed, doing this should ensure that there wouldn't be very many needy children who will need to be supported by the government and the taxpayers in such a scenario.
In addition to this, no non-drastic method of contraception and sterilization is incapable of ever failing. Also, telling male-bodied people to abstain from penis-in-vagina sex for the rest of their lives is no more acceptable for them than it is for female-bodied people when pro-lifers give them this exact same advice. Indeed, I myself would strongly prefer to become a (literal) eunuch than to abstain from penis-in-vagina sex with all fertile and potentially fertile women for the rest of my life. Seriously--after all, it is certainly better than losing a lot of money and getting sluut-shamed, including by various people on this specific forum.
Not that I would support it because there is nothing worse than a deadbeat parent, but if this ridiculous notion were to actually come to the table it would also have a clause that signs away any rights to the child until that child is an adult. If the woman can change her mind than so could the man, which would be the flip side of the original proposal.
Man opts out of support but then decides he wants to be in the child's life.
In your scenario, the guy should never be allowed contact with the kid regardless of age. You don't want to support or participate in raising a kid, you don't ever get to have contact. That'd head off selfish old guys who would only want contact for help in their old age.
I'm OK with your scheme as long as women are informed and consent ahead of time to sex with only possible consequences to them and none for the guy. That'd really help weed out the dead beats.
You propose, it seems, a legal document for both sex partners prior to having sex to sign?
Yes, that could work. Of course, perhaps something such as an e-mail from the woman to the man might be considered to be sufficient proof for this as well--after all, can't e-mails be considered to be valid evidence in court?
Not that I would support it because there is nothing worse than a deadbeat parent,
So women who give their children up for adoption are also selfish?
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but if this ridiculous notion were to actually come to the table it would also have a clause that signs away any rights to the child until that child is an adult. If the woman can change her mind than so could the man, which would be the flip side of the original proposal.
Man opts out of support but then decides he wants to be in the child's life.
Yes, I certainly agree with this.
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This would never ever happen though.
Agreed, which in turn is where a lot of the need for surgical castration on my own part comes from.
One thought. On the flip side are you OK with women requiring guys to sign something saying they will bear the financial and emotional cost if a child is conceived? Seems like an equally valid idea.
In your scenario, the guy should never be allowed contact with the kid regardless of age. You don't want to support or participate in raising a kid, you don't ever get to have contact. That'd head off selfish old guys who would only want contact for help in their old age.
I would probably be willing to support that. However, what if the child is the one who wants to establish contact with his or her "deadbeat parent" in adulthood?
Also, though, I wonder if the rules are this strict for non-anonymous sperm donors or for people who give their children up for adoption.
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I'm OK with your scheme as long as women are informed and consent ahead of time to sex with only possible consequences to them and none for the guy. That'd really help weed out the dead beats.
One thought. On the flip side are you OK with women requiring guys to sign something saying they will bear the financial and emotional cost if a child is conceived? Seems like an equally valid idea.
Why exactly would such a contract be necessary, though? After all, isn't that already the default position of the law in regards to this?
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