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Financial abortion-a male right to choose?

Filed under: General — Scrap_The_CSA @ 4:12 pm Wed 7th July 2010

Interesting article that is well worth a read.

What if a father could choose not to accept financial responsibility for a child before the child was born?

Should create some interesting discussion!

Regards

Scrap

If it were law,a financial abortion would allow a man — one who has specifically said to his partner before intercourse that he doesn’t want to be a father — to void all monetary responsibility for any pregnancy. Without question, the woman could carry the child to term, but she and the law could then never come looking for the dad for child support. It sounds harsh — so much so that Goldscheider admits it will probably never be more than a dream theory — but proponents believe that such a policy could very well make a huge dent in the nation’s scourge of absentee fathers, especially in the African-American community.

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