[Lady Sidhe]

"So disregarding for a moment where the money comes from, why does money in the form of a child support check not introduce the same impure motivations for having the child?"


You hardly make as much money from child support as you do from welfare.


"By that token so is birth control. Nature wants us to have a baby once a year or so from the age of 12 to the age of 45. As an intelligent, reasoning species, we are capable of determining that that isn't the best thing for people's happiness and short-term survival. Giving a child up for adoption isn't "disposing" of it, it's allowing that child to be raised in a loving two-parent environment "

"If a woman is not capable of caring for a child on her own, then I don't believe she'll be able to care for it adequately just because she's receiving an extra couple hundred dollars a month. Meanwhile, she'll be interacting with a man she hates on a weekly basis, who likely hates her as well, and that mutual resentment will be obvious to the child and he/she will suffer because of it."


Yes, but when the species becomes too plentiful, the animals have ways of not breeding.

And you'd be amazed at how much a couple of hundred dollars a month can help.

The point I'm trying to make here is that of responsibility. A man should not be able to duck his responsibility just because he doesn't want the kid and the mother decides to keep it.


Sidhe