To wonder what people think about this, child maintenance

[TWDfan]

A man has a one night stand that results in the woman becoming pregnant, neither of them were mindful about taking precautions.

He tells the woman from the offset that he isn't ready to have a baby and he doesn't want to be involved, but respects her decision if she chooses to keep the baby and go it alone but makes it clear he won't be a part of the childs life or hers.

Woman keeps the baby knowing the father won't be involved and is prepared to be a single parent, as the due date looms the father begins getting messages about paying for the child.

Should he pay CM?

Yes. I’m not sure what planet people are on if they think they can create a life and just disappear into the sunset without providing for it. Who else will pick up the slack? The mother? The taxpayer? You shove your dick somewhere and you should understand that it may lead to a reduced income for at least the next 18 years of your life

*Today 06:28 Booie09

What if the woman deliberately lied about contraception and got pregnant on purpose? We don't know the full circumstances.*

He should wear a condom REGARDLESS, not just because of potential babies but also for STI reasons. It’s absolutely still his fault for wanting to unsafely get his jollies off without allowing logic to be part of the situation.

Of course it’s the woman’s fault too, 50/50, also the woman should then undergo some kind of councelling if she’s attempting to intentionally get pregnant without fathers knowledge

Blimey. There needs to be no opting out, no enforced abortion , no poor men because the women hold all the cards.

If you do not want to have a baby, do not have sex. If you have sex, contraception or not, you might end up with a baby. Sex is not compulsory. Many millions of people around the world are surviving quite happily without it.

Well I’m raising two children who are paying the emotional price of paternal abandonment. (I’m paying for the counselling) I swear i would hand him back every single penny of child support if he could undo what he has done to my children. It’s fucking cruelty. Christ knows the impact this will have on their future relationships and their own ability to parent well. I can only do so much to counteract the impact. But a parent choosing to walk away from you leaves a hole in your life that never gets fully filled.

It is unfair that in the case of an accidental pregnancy (whether lack of any protection or failure) a man can be forced into the responsibilities of parenthood. Nobody can force that on a woman, nor can she be forced to abort, but literally the biggest decision in life, to be a parent or not, is taken out of a mans hands, and that must be horrible to have that kind of responsibility forced on you

Nobody forced anything on him. He had sex without any contraception. He's a fucking idiot.

Sod what he thinks, just get the CSA involved asap.

If men were allowed to financially abort unwanted children then scumbags all over would be claiming they didn't want the child as soon as they fell out with their pregnant gf.

Oh the poor menz, there's so many of them going without to support children birthed by scheming women just after their money

No man can be forced to be an active parent, nor should they be. But they should absolutely bd forced to pay child maintenance.

They both made a mistake, it was a joint thing, but what if the woman had made the decision to not keep the child whilst the man actually wanted it?
In this situation I actually do think it's pretty shifty for the men, they don't really get to make the decision on if to continue the pregnancy or not but then have to deal with the outcome of the woman's decision.

It never ceases to amaze me that in the one area women are perceived as having some kind of biological advantage, people tie themselves up in knots trying to find a way to make it “fair” for men. Meanwhile, men are biologically much stronger than us, and kill and attack us at an astounding rate, yet you don’t see those same people worrying about how to make that biological difference more fair to women. Maybe men should be drugged from birth to make them weaker?