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In reply to the discussion: Father will be reunited with baby adopted without his knowledge, judge rules [View all]Tumbulu
(6,267 posts)somehow pregnancy and giving birth are some vacation holiday?
What man on the earth ever pays child support, there must be some, I just don't know many? Where do you live that child support - even when paid- actually is enough to support the child?
I guess you live in some world that I do not live in, since in all of the cases I know the support is erratic or non-existant or not enough.
Parental rights go to dad's regardless of if they have paid child support ever or at all. It all comes from the system where men owned the women and thus any offspring from the woman becomes property of the man of the household. It is old patriarchy stuff.
I just came back from an sad event where a tremendous stepdad who married and cared for a single mom and her daughter (who had raised her child without any child support from biodad) until the mom died of cancer was denied custody of this stepdaughter that he had raised and cared for the the past 6 years because the biodad who never supported either the mother or the child wanted the 14 yr old daughter after all. This selfish man tore his daughter away from her school and home and life right after her mother died of cancer. A simply awful thing to do. The stepdad is devastated as are the other relatives. The judge's hands were tied as all laws give these biodad's these rights. I do not think this is at all fair.
I think that fatherhood is earned- yes. I have no respect for men who treat a child as property for them to come and get. The law gives them this right, but I object to this law.