Reply #235: No

[Azalea]

I sound like someone who thinks child support should be reserved for wanted children. If the father is an active participant in the child's life then yes he SHOULD be forced to pay because parenthood comes with a price and he accepts that price when he accepts paternity. However anyone, male or female who wishes to terminate their parental rights should be able to do so, and do so with privacy. Their name should NOT appear on the birth certificate and they should not be forced to spend two seconds with the child or pay a dime towards anything.

I think its despicable you can force someone by law to pay money for a child they do not want yet a aprent can deny giving blood or an organ to a child they claim to want or love. Not having child support would mean the custodial parent would have to work harder to be responsible for their decision to be a parent post natal/post conception.

It's childish to even want child support from someone who never wanted the child in the first place and makes you no better than the pro-lifers who make the SAME argument that having sex=consenting to being a parent. It's a smack in the face to the very grounds of reproductive rights.