(February 24, 2016 at 9:45 am)mh.brewer Wrote: 1. The male does not have to carry the child to term. That choice is always the females. The male gets no say.
2. What you said.
3. Parents can sign off rights.
4. Being a parent is not always discussed prior to copulation. How can you abstain if you don't know? Or don't care in the heat of the moment. Or are the 1% failure from birth control.
I note that you have not addressed the financial issues.
You are correct. I didn't address the financial issues. It was overlooked. As I said, there are several factors to consider, which I couldn't possibly know what all of them are. Good thing I opted not to do a poll.
Financial issues are plenty. There's the cost of the pregnancy. The cost of giving birth. The cost of providing all of the basic essentials the child will need for the first 18 years of life. This of course doesn't include anything else that the child may need along the way. Child support is going to come up as being an issue as well. Should the parent who doesn't want the child, be forced to pay child support or should they be given the right to opt out of that? I say, if the person who doesn't want the child, is willing to sign away their rights, then the obligation of support no longer rests on their shoulders. Man or woman. But again, they can't try to come into the child's life later on when the financial burden is no longer there. If the child chooses to seek out that parent after they turn 18, it would be up to that child and that parent to decide if they want a relationship or not.
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