No rights
What I see happening is that women have the "rights" with regard to reproduction, without the corresponding responsibilities. Ok, yes, she will have responsibilities, many, but not LEGISLATED ones. There is no judge standing over her telling her to give her child XXX amount of dollars per month for her child every year until they graduate university, and that she cannot quit working or she will go into arrears and owe even more.
By contrast, the man has only responsibilities, but not rights, in regard to reproduction. The man may tell a women he doesn't want a child, she may lie to him about being on contraception, or it may just be an accident. But once she is pregnant, he has no rights, it is ALL her decision. And yet he is now held responsible for CS, daycare, summer camps, and university for up to age 26 in Canada.
Yes, a child needs money to be raised, but should a man be cornered into this economic servitude, responsibility minus rights? The women, who has the right to keep the child, knowing the man involved didn't want a child, should be fully responsible (including financially) for her choice to keep the child.
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