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Why is it that women want to apply a double standard on this issue. She made a decision to become a parent, she then decided that he would be a parent whether he wanted to or not. The ability to have a child should be made on ones ability to provide for the child before its born. If the fact of $50 in support makes him a deadbeat, does the fact she doesn’t have a similar amount of money without state support (especially when she gets locked-up) make her a deadbeat mother? Sex can be done without resulting in a live birth.

She made a decision to become a parent, she then decided that he would be a parent whether he wanted to or not

I don't see any place where it says she became pregnant intentionally. It sounds like having premarital sex at too young an age was a mistake they both made together, not one she forced on him.

Once the pregnancy occured, they are BOTH parents whether they want to be or not. That is the way the world works. Both the girl and the boy have to take responsibility for that. When the boy is told to pay child support, he is paying it to the baby he fathered, not to the girl who he and his parents may hate now. It doesn't matter how he feels about her anymore, he has to support his son.

It's really not as complicated as people are trying to make it. Girls must do the right thing and bear their babies even if they were too young to make a good decision when they had sex. Boys must do the right thing even if they were too young to make a good decision too. If that means getting a part-time job to pay $50 a month to help support his child, then he should do that. A 15-year-old girl who became pregnant would have to make sacrifices too.

Sex can be done without resulting in a live birth.

Yes, the mother could have hired an abortionist to kill the evidence of her crime.

Cordially,