[okiecon]

Abandonment and refusing to pay government mandated child support are two different things. Namely, access to the child is not guarenteed by paying child support and the mother generally may move across the country at any time. While I respect your choice and would make the same one, it should be a choice.

I wished I knew more about the case, off to research it.

[goldstategop]

A valid point. All the same human beings are different from animals, in that while we mate like them, we don't condition love strictly on an affirmation of biological paternity. Human beings have managed to trascend nature through selfless love.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[sauropod]

Agree absolutely.