“Your proposal is fine but it is heavy on making the child a pawn in a system of monetary transactions. I don’t buy into that concept.”
That’s already the system that we have now, it just strictly favors the woman and gives no recourse to the men. You seem pretty fine with defending THAT system.
I’m defending the concept of people who co-create a child being BOTH responsible for that child ... and not just monetarily.
I’m defending not looking a child as a burden or a punishment or pawn between bickering adults. I’m defending the idea that two adults who create a child should be joining forces to be the best parents they can be to their own flesh and blood child.
I’m not defending the system we have now. It is horrible, mostly for children. We can do better than that.