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Originally Posted by Azure
How do you force someone to share half that responsibility of taxpayers are paying for the support?
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I am not talking about a case where the taxpayers are paying for the support. I was responding to a poster who said that "there should be a law that if a girl gets pregnant in her teenage years, she'll get no child support from the government at all". He (she?) seems to think that the mother has sole responsibility for raising the child (although caveats were later added that the families of the mother and father should also help out).
If there is no government support, then I do feel that the father has as much responsibility to raise the child as the mother does. There are many ways to share the responsibility. Two examples that come to mind are shared custody and financial child support.