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Originally Posted by garysher  Any child will have a better life with a loving mother and father in a stable home.
If the guy was capable of being a 'loving father', he wouldn't have headed for the hills and abandoned his child, now would he?
You seem to be agreeing that it's almost always the woman who is left holding the baby, and therefore the onus is on her to find a good father for her children.
It is almost the woman who is left holding the baby, but my point was that when women have sex, they are not always looking to become a mother, so why should she weigh every sexual partner on their 'fatherhood' abilities?
This doesn't excuse the flaky men who get their girlfriends pregnant then disappear.
I don't excuse them. I think we need MUCH more effective child support laws. Perhaps if both men and women knew that they wouldn't get a free ride, so to speak, regarding raising children, they wouldn't be so willing to have kids they know they can't support.
His soul would still be here but in a different body. | You can't prove the existence of a 'soul', so your argument is moot. Bother not the cat. For they are sneaky and will piss on thy keyboard. |