[cuban leaf]

Depends on the state, but so many laws are now phrased “in the best interests of the child”, that I would not say no in all cases.

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One of the things that bugs me about that phrasing is that the courts are basically saying that the rights of children trumps the rights of adults. It makes children a sort of “super citizen”. And the irony is that they usually grow up to be adults.

In war, adult males are canon fodder. In peacetime, they are economy fodder.

[SgtHooper]

Even worse, the females know this, and CAN leverage it in many different ways. Get pregnant by Chad, quickly bed a “good candidate” Mark, happily announce to Mark that he is the father, and off we go. If Mark contests and by some mechanism can divorce the skank and be absolved of support, on to the entitlement gravy train she goes. Life is good!