Just had this discussion with some of the people here at work and wondered what the mass mind that is TT thinks.
The subject was on why men get such a bad deal when it comes to children.
When a woman discovers she is preganant then from that point on the father has next to zero rights but full responsiblity.
By that I mean if the mother decides to abort then the father can not stop her but if the father decides he doesn't want the child there is nothing (apart from running away and hiding) that he can do and he is financially responsible for the next 18 years.
The mother has a legal right to force the father to be a father but the man has no rights the other way.
Don't want this to turn into a discussion on the rights/wrongs of abortion (probably hopeless plea) but only on the idea of the totally unbalanced rights/responsiblities of both parents in these situations.
It gets even stranger when sperm donors and surrogate mothers get involved.
Related topic: Abortion - choice or murder?



