Quote From: inthenestThe trouble is that women have an instinctive NEED to nurture. Men do not have this strong natural instinct; after all it is women who carry in pregnancy and breastfeed their babies; they are designed that way. The trouble is when a woman is so desperate to be a mother that she tricks an unwilling man into getting her pregnant . She should know that in so doing she will have to assume full responsibility for the baby. Then she can make up her mind whether it is worth it all.
If a woman gets pregnant by mistake, which happens all the time, the father should have the right to refuse to support the baby if the mother will not either abort or give the baby up for adoption.
I told my son as he got into his teens that as a 'man' he has to be so careful because the woman has all the rights. I told him that if a girl he has sex with gets pregnant he can be saddled for 21 years supporting that child; a BIG price to pay when he has ZERO power once a girl is pregnant.
It is not fair but until the laws change and give equal rights to our boys, they are 'screwed'!
PBS aired a show last October 21st called "Breaking the Silence, Children's Stories", about the problem of too many abusive fathers winning custody. The problem is though, acording to the US Dept of HHS, 40% of child abuse victims were perpetrated against by their mothers, compared to 18% offended by their fathers. I say too many abusive MOTHERS get sole custody!.
On the day the PBS story was advertised to me, the top headlines in Cleveland were a woman convicted of murdering her baby and burning her house to cover, and another woman dropping her newborn (UC still attached) into a wastebasket at a mall. Four days later, airdate, the news stories were a woman in California throwing her 3 children off a pier, and a Dayton area woman who gave her child to a gypsy "uncle" to transport to dad in California, "Uncle" disappeared with the kid for two months before the mom reported the missing child.
So much for the superiority of the female "nurturing instinct"
