Question: Why Do MEN Have ANY Say In A WOMAN'S Right To Choose ???

[passiveporcupine]

141. I agree

Today things may be a lot different than in my day. I still think that any woman who agrees to have sex, has to be willing to take the consequences of her actions, if she does not protect herself. I'm not saying that she should shoulder the burden alone all the time. It's just that things can happen. It is not a perfect world and lots of things can happen to disrupt the support of the man in raising a child. Like he might die. And if it was consensual and not a trap, the man should be just as responsible as the woman in supporting any child resulting from consummation.

But then...we all know how child support from an unwilling partner turns out, don't we? The woman is still stuck with the cost of raising the child if the man refuses to pay and evades child support.

Women have the choice in what happens to their bodies. There is no denying this. They also have the "ultimate" responsibility in what happens to their bodies, if they choose to have sex.

That is also not to say men don't also have a responsibility. But woman can use (and have used) their pregnancy as a weapon to trap men into marriage, and I don't think that is fair. A man could do that too, but I doubt it happens as often as the other way around.

I'm not denying a child needs support and both parents should pay in most situations...I'm just saying maybe women should not be able to trap men into child support, if they have deceived that man into the situation.

Here is another question...I really don't know the answer to this. How many women have to pay child support if it's determined the man gets custody?