It was called "marriage".
Marriage was a public act which entailed accepting responsibility for the children born to one woman.
No marriage, no responsibility.
If that were still the law, unmarried women would lack the power to compel men's financial responsibility for their poor choices.
That's right. If history is any indicator, women would again be much more discriminating about who and when they have sex.
Good call.
Here we go again. Women make "poor choices" but the man making the same choice (to have sex) is off the hook. Typical neo-Conservative version of "personal responsibility" a.k.a. passing the buck.