Should child support be illegal?

In not totally against this because practically speaking I am responsible and in control of my own actions. However, the area where it diverges is that I can make a mistake or have bad luck (condom breaks or slips off, make a dumb decision while drunk or too comfortable with a woman) and I can be punished for 18 years for that mistake by a vindictive woman who takes my money without consequence.

On the other hand, no margin of error is accountable to luck for the women involved. It is 100% their decision, a conscious adult decision and luck has nothing to do with it.

So I can be penalized for bad luck or making a mistake but they don't have to worry about it.

The question then becomes, because people break the law by accident all the time and it's still illegal, what is the proper course of action? Is it wreckless if a condom breaks or falls off? Can we even afford to get in to the details that deeply?

At the end of the day I don't see it as equitable that I can be punished with long term consequences that can be a severe detriment to my life and future relationships due to taking the risk of sex, whereas the woman does not have ANY risk at all, having access to so many forms of birth control (many of which won't have significant side effects to deflect to as costly) , and even still she has access to plan B and abortion OR adoption, if she chooses to have the child.

Ultimately, there's no way we can deny the fact that the woman is the only who decides to actually have the child. Should the man who is wreckless or unlucky be held responsible for her choice?

If so, then he should be able to choose to have the baby also, there's no way to deny that equitable logic. If she can decide to have the baby and he can't opt out because he's equally responsible for consenting to sex then it works both ways. She consented to sex. She got pregnant and if he wants her to take the baby to term she should have to.

It can't be bot. Either they are both in equal control of the final decision or we agree that women have the final say and give men the chance to opt out.

Otherwise, men should be able to force pregnant girlfriends to keep their baby.

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