Reply #129: Agreed. And that is the almost universal view of everyone involved in child custody issues.

[TexasObserver]

All the judges, all the advocates, all the child psychiatrists and psychologists agree that it is essential that birth fathers be identified and given an opportunity to be a part of the child's life. By law, we make every man co-equally responsible for the child, whether he knows about it or not. He has rights, the child has rights, and society has rights.

Pregnancy and abortion are the right of women, but once a child is born, she shares the duties, responsibilities, and rights with the father, unless and until she takes action to get a court to suspend those rights.

Parts of this thread remind me of the old SNL skit of a book by a pretend author: "MEN BAD, WOMEN GOOD." Nora Dunn as the author, I believe.