If a man has no legal rights in having a say what happens to a fetus he helped create, why should he be required to pay child support?
Why or why not?
2006-12-05 23:17:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Hey folks, I am a woman who has given birth to 3 children and collected child support. I am asking this question out of curiosity and trying to look at it from a mans point of view.
2006-12-05 23:28:23 · update #1
Wombat.... LOL.... Women like me? For your information, I received far less child support then I was entitled to. Why? Because I didn't want to put my ex-husband in the poor house. It was a mutually understood arangement where if the children needed more than I could afford he would give extra help. On the other hand, if he was going through a rough time and I could swing caring for the children on my own for a period of time, I gave him a break. We created the children together and we took mutual responsibility for the children. THAT is what a set of parents are suppose to do.
2006-12-05 23:48:58 · update #2
It was a partnership where neither one of us ever attempted to overrule the other. Even though I was the custodial parent he had the right to as much say in their lives as I did. Our marriage may have failed but we succeeded in raising some pretty tremendous kids. You could be so lucky.
2006-12-05 23:52:07 · update #3
His obligation to pay child support started the moment he had sex with the woman. Once the child is conceived, it's the child's right to expect support, financial and otherwise, from BOTH parents.
2006-12-05 23:25:53 · answer #1 · answered by Mrs. Strain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should the woman be the one to carry the fetus? Why should she be the one to everything happen to her body! After all both of you took pleasure in the act. This is the legal way of taking care of natures unfairness.
Tax payers don't want to have to pay for you to have one minute of pleasure.
2006-12-05 23:26:33 · answer #2 · answered by wondermom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps if you wern't so irresponsible in the first place (by not using some sort of contraception), then maybe women like you wouldn't have to ask these sort of questions.
2006-12-05 23:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by wombat2u2004 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because you laid between the sheets.
2006-12-05 23:21:09 · answer #4 · answered by betty boop 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question
2006-12-05 23:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by RZA 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋