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As much as I am opposed to government involvement in enforcing morality upon people, I think that the child's best interest should always be kept in mind, rather than that of the parent(s).
To me, people should support their children - they should be forced to do so in all aspects. In fact, this is probably the only topic out there I am such a fascist about is kids. There's a lot of fucked up people out there and most of them reproduce somewhere along the line, but it was never the choice of the child to be made, so their best interest should be seen to rather than that of the parents (even though it is in everyone's best interest to please both parties).
That being said, I think that males should be forced to pay child support. Not all of them want children, sure, but really - they should have thought about that before they had sex.
I understand that times have changed and that the tradition of it being a woman's decision is quite sexist, but I do not understand how else it could be enforced save for Government involvement in the situation (which I am strongly opposed to). By the time any legal enforcement could be issued, the child would be out and alive anyways.
I think it's just one of those unfortunate injustices (at times) that people will just have to live with. I guess some people are pissed at it in their situation, but hey - there's some laws that piss me off, too. Like public nudity laws - why can't I walk around naked? What is so wrong with that? It pisses me off that it is illegal for me to be naked in public. However, I would not like to see this law which prevents me from being nude in public removed, as it would mean that it is ok for everybody to be naked in public. I live in America. Have you seen the people in America? We just can't have that. Same concept - what is ok in some situations is not ok in all situations - but the best interest of the child should be kept in mind rather than that of selfish individuals who are afraid to face the choices they have made.
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Last edited by Halcyon+On+On on Feb-08-2007 at 01:35
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