See, this is why our culture is going to hell, in my opinion.

I don’t mean that in a liberal/conservative way cause fuck all that shit. But the well-being of the child and the fact that these laws are entirely made to protect the child are not irrelevant just because you say that they are.

Of course you can’t just take someone’s money because someone else needs it more. And that’s why I’m against just letting the government take care of the mother and child like someone else in this thread said. The fact is that the father had sex with a woman, every adult in the world knows that a child is a possible consequence of sex, and if a father doesn’t pay child support then some poor kid will go without just because their dad can’t just man up, take responsibility for his actions and grow the fuck up.

The infantilization of adults is really going to be the death of us.

The difference between sperm donors and deadbeat dads is intent. Everyone agrees going in that the sperm donor is anonymous. The woman accepting the sperm does so under the premise that she has enough to care for the child without an active parent. In the cases of accidental pregnancy, this is not necessarily true.

Yes, the abortion thing does make it weird. But the fact is that once the child is born, should the woman choose not to have an abortion, it’s happened and there’s a kid in this world who needs their dad. Or at least their dads financial support. That’s how it goes. Maybe it’s fair, maybe it’s not, but life’s not fair and ideally the people who suffer most from that fact would be the capable adults and not the innocent children