I keep hearing how ever since society was "feminized", men end up paying child support, which is just Not Fair! In the eras before feminism, when a guy got his girlfriend pregnant, he was pressured to marry her, and often did. Child support used to be called a wedding ring, guys.
SO - what if instead of pretending that a pregnant woman can easily support herself and a child, and should have no need of a husband, we just bring back shotgun weddings? That's pretty much what we did before the feminists took over, so shall we try that again instead? Or what?
Does the availibility of abortion release you from your obligation to the child? Is that the logic here? Adoption (and some forms of birth control) were always an option in the shotgun marriage days, but obviously there was still a great deal of pressure to get married instead. Would men prefer that to the current situation of child support?
2007-11-07
03:49:41
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Junie
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