Tracy wrote:
"Ken Chaddock" wrote in message
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Moon Shyne wrote:


Married and divorcing: default 50/50. No rights to walk away. If Dad
wants only 20%, he pays mom to handle his other 30 percent. If mom wants
80/20 and can get dad to agree, she handles the other 30 % she chooses on
her own. Other than that, they pay for their own expenses.


"No rights to walk away".

How do you propose stopping someone from doing so?

How do we do it now ? What he means is that if you were in a relationship
where having children was an agreed upon objective or wherein you had
agreed to the commitment of having and supporting children, you don't get
to *LEGALLY* walk away just because you might want to. (Note, this
relationship doesn't necessarily have to be a marriage, it could be
co-habitation, if could even be separate habitation but you've told the
pregnant women that you agree to support the child...which influences her
decision to have the child...you don't get to arbitrarily walk away if
you've freely made a commitment...


But people do every day... They excuse their behavior by stating "I changed
my mind." It boils down to that the real problems are morals, not legal,
issues.

Yes Tracy, but when it's *men* who "change their minds", the law holds
them to their obligations...hell even when they haven been given a
chance to make a decision, the law STILL holds them to "their"
obligations...even when boys and men have been sexually abused, sexually
assaulted and raped...the law STILL holds them to "their" obligations...
OTOH, when it's a woman who changes her mind she can have an abortion
or, if she objects to abortion she can unilaterally put the child up for
adoption or, if that's too much trouble then in over 47 states now she
can just legally walk away by abandoning the child at a "safe
haven"...see the difference ?

....Ken