03-09-2006, 04:27 AM
I am troubled by the ethics of your proposal, Doc.
Honesty is a much admired concept, but honesty in sexual relationships is not always there.
You correctly point out that some women do use child support as a means of collecting cash, not necessarily for 'child support' only. Some men have been just as firmly entrapped by unwanted pregnancies as all women used to be.
However, *if* a proposal such as you are suggesting were to go through, I would want the burden of proof be on the man to convince a court that he had been deliberately misled about the fertility of his partner.
I would not change the status quo at all for the results of failed but genuine attempts to prevent pregnancy.
Honesty is a much admired concept, but honesty in sexual relationships is not always there.
You correctly point out that some women do use child support as a means of collecting cash, not necessarily for 'child support' only. Some men have been just as firmly entrapped by unwanted pregnancies as all women used to be.
However, *if* a proposal such as you are suggesting were to go through, I would want the burden of proof be on the man to convince a court that he had been deliberately misled about the fertility of his partner.
I would not change the status quo at all for the results of failed but genuine attempts to prevent pregnancy.
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake