The woman chooses to have the baby, but they want men to pay the bills. Logically, in all fairness, the man's liability should be limited to half the cost of an abortion, to be paid only if the woman has an abortion. Well, okay: maybe whether she has an abortion or not. But half of what an abortion costs is the just extent of the amount due. Instead, men get stuck with an obligation of forced labor, i.e. slave labor, in the amount of 10,000 to 20,000 hours, from which all the reward goes to the woman who mothered his child.

Feminists like to find fault with men who don't pay child support, but they don't acknowledge the sexism embedded in the application of child support laws.

\* Mothers are at least five times more likely than fathers to receive custody.

\* Custodial mothers are 2.7 times more likely than custodial fathers to be awarded child support from their former spouse.

If both of these sexist practices were ended, such that fathers and mothers were equally likely to receive sole custody and such that custodial parents were equally likely to receive a child support award, regardless of the custodial parent's gender, then you would see that the typical deadbeat parent is a woman, not a man.

On a per capita basis, noncustodial mothers owing child support are deadbeats 1.74 times more often than are noncustodial fathers owing child support.

Not only that, it's a fact that about 3/4 of the major problems that afflict children—teen pregnancy, dropping out of school, going to jail, using drugs, etc.—involve children being raised by their mothers alone, i.e., in fatherless homes.

Whether you judge by the responsibility in paying child support, or by the distribution of the results of bad parenting, it is clear that fathers are better parents than mothers in about seven cases out of ten, on the average.

By instilling into child custody laws a heavy preference for maternal custody, feminism has harmed children. It seems obvious in retrospect that feminism never set out to protect children, that their aim all along was to create an extortion racket in which men could be enslaved by their former wives following a divorce, which gave females legal and social leverage by which to pressure and control males. Which has resulted in the moral corruption of women.

Here are some related facts about children raised by custodial mothers.

Children raised by their mothers only (i.e., in a fatherless home) account for:

\* 71% of pregnant teenagers
(Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services, press release, Friday, March 26, 1999.)

\* 63% of youth suicides.
(Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services, Bureau of the Census.)

\* 90% of all homeless and runaway children.

\* 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes.
(Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988.)

\* 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders.
(Source: Centers for Disease Control.)

\* 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger.
(Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26, 1978.)

\* 71% of all high school dropouts.
(Source: National Principals' Association Report on the State of High Schools.)

\* 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers.
(Source: Rainbows for all God`s Children.)

\* 85% of all youths sitting in prisons.
(Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992.)

Anyone who wishes that these problems be remedied should support changes to the laws, so that custody of minor children is awarded primarily to fathers, instead of to mothers. We know from statistics such as these that awarding custody to mothers causes an increased risk of harm to children. By making fathers the prime choice for custodial parent, the risk to children will lessen.

And it will probably have a side benefit of reducing the divorce rate. When mothers are preferred for custody, the divorce rate goes UP. I predict that when fathers are preferred for custody, the divorce rate will go DOWN.

As it is today (2009), child support is an extortion racket that feminists invented and slid into American laws, where they plague us all. It isn't about helping children. It's about transferring wealth from men who worked to earn it to women who did not, a gender-biased form of Marxism. Child support awards contain a large proportion of hidden alimony, or money that the women receiving it use for their own pleasure. No, they aren't supposed to do that. But they do. And nobody stops them. It is not fair to men that they must thus sustain a woman who no longer provides them with those things which wives do for their husbands.

Here are a few more facts that illustrate the differences in how responsibly men and women treat their parenting obligations, and how badly mismatched our present, feminist-influenced legal traditions are in respect of those differences.

Divorced mothers are at least five times more likely to receive sole custody of children, as compared with divorced fathers.

80% of divorced mothers with sole custody of children receive child support payments from their former husbands, but only 30% of divorced fathers with sole custody of children receive child support payments from their former wives.

47% of divorced mothers who are ordered to pay child support to custodial fathers are complete deadbeats, but only 27% of divorced fathers who are ordered to pay child support to custodial mothers do not pay.

(Source: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Income Security Policy, Oct. 1991, Authors: Meyer and Garansky.)