20. From a legal perspective, the issue is the rights of the child
The mother is not allowed to sign away paternal responsibilities or rights. That leads to some of the perceived inequities you bring up.
The current legal framework is far from balanced and is rooted in paradigms in serious need of revision. Unfortunately changing them would be damn near impossible due to the entire business, government and private, that have grown up around it.
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