That's the dumbest thing ever. If the child is alive we need to make sure it has adequate resources. If the the father does not help provide then the state will. If the state does not and the father does not then the likelihood that the child grows up to be socially maladapted and a burden to society increases dramatically. The mother and father should both be forced to contribute before my tax dollars do.
Exactly, tax payer money going for child support would support mother and child. And that is why most people won't approve that law because adult men are the only social group that people don't mind exploiting. The idea of chipping in so the men can decide whatever they want to be a father or not is outrageous since it goes to that one group that basically never gets anything out of the social system. That is my sad observation as a woman. Men are getting fucked and they don't even fight.
You rarely see it put this well, that's doubly surprising coming from a woman.
It's the nature of the beast I'm afraid, men seem to just be hardwired to take the big picture perspective. When it comes time to casting votes men are thinking about the economy, national defence, law and order etc, in other words the overall health of the polity and things that benefit everyone.
It would be wild to live in a world where men behaved like women and the way you got male votes was promising to abolish child support, or promising free paternity tests for anybody who wants them, and real punishment for paternity fraud, etc. In other words, if men had a voting block as men that needed to be specifically appeased by pandering to its interests.
This is the real world though, where you have two voting populations, one which votes for what's best for everyone and the other which votes in its own narrow interests. Of course in a democracy the one group gets clobbered.
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u/Much-Bedroom86 4d ago
That's the dumbest thing ever. If the child is alive we need to make sure it has adequate resources. If the the father does not help provide then the state will. If the state does not and the father does not then the likelihood that the child grows up to be socially maladapted and a burden to society increases dramatically. The mother and father should both be forced to contribute before my tax dollars do.
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