If you wanted to encourage marriage, you would have men having ZERO obligations unless legally married.
Women need to have an incentive to marry early, rather than the current widespread practice of playing around during their 20's, in the expectation that they will get some sucker to marry their worn-out selves after they hit The Wall, and are no longer of interest to the handsome, exciting men they chased in their 30's.
“in their 30’s” meant “in their 20’s”
Zero obligations to children is not much better than abortion. At least the child lives but has no father ... which is irresponsible in the extreme.
How about adults be responsible for the child they co-create? Nah, that would be too hard.
“If you wanted to encourage marriage, you would have men having ZERO obligations unless legally married.”
I understand your argument but don’t think it holds up.
“Women need to have an incentive to marry early, rather than the current widespread practice of playing around during their 20’s, in the expectation that they will get some sucker to marry their worn-out selves after they hit The Wall, and are no longer of interest to the handsome, exciting men they chased in their 30’s.”
And herein lies the problem: Women are taught from elementary school that they too can live a carefree life, go to college, and chase a career. Instead of marrying and having children in their 20s, women want to go to the club, climb the corporate ladder, spend their evenings networking at happy hours, and have as much no strings attached sex as possible.
Then, suddenly, when they hit the wall, they decide it’s time to settle down with a good man that is an active church member that went to West Point. However, no honorable man wants a pagan woman that spent her entire 20s in the clubs getting banged by random strangers.