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The law is supposed to protect the child.
It doesn't, because the law assumes the mother knows whats best. What if the father is in a better position to care for the child? It's not even taken into consideration. Laws with no flex, give or bend are less than useless, if you kill someone in self defence it's not as bad as if you go and hunt them down in cold blood. But if you do everything possible to prevent a child from coming into the world, other than abstinence, it's treated exactly the same way as if you go and and deliberatly go out and knock a girl up. Nothing is perfect, but at the moment the laws surounding this issue could do with some solid revision.
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Responding to the comment that fathers can't even be involved in an adoption decision; I don't think that it's true. At least in some states, I believe that both parents have to sign away their rights in order for an adoption to be official. So in a case where the mother gives up her child, the father can opt to take custody rather than allow an adoption to go through.
In this case, I do agree that the man was the victim of fraud and manipulation. On the other hand, the child was not the one who perpetrated it. I can understand the stance of the courts that the child should not lose out on the support of the father (as there is no one else to take over the responsibility). The problem is that the mother is also going to benefit from the child support. In some cases, you wish that the money from the child support could go into a trust fund rather than to the mother, and some neutral party be responsible for deciding what expenses should be paid for. In some cases, like the one Thoran described, where a pregnancy is the result of the woman abusing the male, the courts should take the child away from the woman and put it up for adoption (after all, the woman is a known child abuser! How could leaving a child in that situation ever be in the best interest?) As the husband to a woman who actually has a medical condition that leaves her barren, it really gets to me when I hear these kinds of stories. We have to rely on adoption if we are ever going to have kids. Knowing that children are being concieved where they're not wanted, or as ploys to manipulate someone into a relationship is heartbreaking. I really wish that as a society, we would show more support and respect for parents who choose to give their children up for adoption.
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