(January 27, 2012 at 4:01 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: What if the situation is reversed and the father wants her to have an abortion or doesn't want to be a father, but the girl is intent on keeping the baby? I've often wondered how fair it is that he should have to pay child support in that kind of situation. However, if this were the case then all a guy would have to do to get out of paying is to claim he didn't want the child in the first place.
An agreement should be in paper. The man should be able to file, but he gives up all parental rights, in that case. Actually, men can sign over parental rights as it is.
Dads do get the shit end of the stick. The difference between my child's biological mother's child support (she has no custody) and the child support my brother and law pays with partial custody is $600 a month for one child around the same age in the same state. It is a very biased system.
