Several folks have advocated letting men choose to forgo paying child support if they don't want to have a baby. I will call this, "The Right to Abandonment" law. Under this new law, what will happen in these circumstances?:
Mary is a cashier at Wal-mart and makes $7 an hour. She becomes pregnant with her casual boyfriend. He invokes his "right to abandon" and refuses to pay support. Child care costs $4 an hour. What should she do?
Beth makes $25 an hour as an accountant, and lives with her boyfriend. After she becomes pregnant, he decides he isn't ready for parenthood, and doesn't want to "share" his income of $50,000 a year. Her daughter is born with cerebral palsy and must either be cared for by a nurse at $18 an hour or Beth has to quit her job. However, she needs to keep her health insurance, and her BF refuses to add the girl to his policy, claiming he is not her parent legally.
So what should we do? Bring back welfare? Build orphanages? Ideas, anyone?
2007-10-03
05:09:39
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Junie
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Gender Studies