"Getting out when he had the chance" in this context could only mean "keeping his semen out of some deranged woman's genital tract."
He had no business becoming a part of these women's baby-making scheme. But once he's a willing participant in procreation, he's acquired obligations, flowing directly from the fact that the child has rights.
What I'm getting at is this: this is a massively screwed-up situation, but the central considertion (which isn't even being recognized) is that every child has a natural right to be cared for by her natural mother and father.
The natural father is the DNA father. The genetic father. The begetting father.
It's not that he has rights, but that the child has rights.
In theis case, the right to derive identity, kinship, and support from the natural father.
I don't see how any law, any judge, or any lesbian mother can justly rule or bargain or negotiste away the child's rights.
This whole freak show is based on the premise that the two-year-old daughter has no natural rights.
I realize that the UK doesn't have our understanding of the Declaration of Independence, but they must understand that "endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights" applies to all human beings at the moment of Conception