I’m with you. But, I have sons. A boy working at the corner market can not pay the consequences, at least in coins. Forget about it.
They better think of something else. Fast.
If girl-momma can not financially afford the coin and the consequences either, then on that one point all things are equal. Adoption is the only answer I can think of.
Even cavemen had to know that offspring come from the mother, are suckled by the mother, so, as her stake is greater, perhaps we could discuss the possibility that her responsibility and her unfortunate consequences are naturally going to be greater. Hmmm?
(Women have the legal system, the choices, except when they don’t want to make one. Nathan, you are so right.)
Women, about men, are trying to throw their weight around to make all things, all the time, in every circumstance, equal, when nature is screaming that they are not. Here, we have a boy unable to do anything. It’s the girl in the driver’s seat, on the abortion, adoption, on lawyering up, on raising baby, or not. The boy is made a burro for her choices, whatever they may be.
I fault the boy and the girl for considerations of abortion.
Your comments are reasoned.
If at all possible, I like to see babies stay with the parent(s). If not, then a good loving home is fine too.
I think kids have angst regarding their birth parents. I like to see that avoided if at all possible.
If the home of the real parents isn’t loving, of course adoption is important too.
Children and parents in adoptive homes can be very loving toward each other, and completely fulfill all parties’ needs. I’m not here to knock adoption at all.