Kabanaw Wrote:This has already been discussed. This law would not be so men can knock up and run, it's so the men don't end up in a situation that ruins their lives. An easy way to prevent dead beats from just running off is to determine whether safe sex was used, whether either party lied about it, and if it wasn't safe and/or it was the man's fault then he would have to pay child support.
There is literally no way to prove any of the factors you're discussing. You cannot prove whether the couple was on the pill and/or condom, you cannot prove if anyone lied about any of the factors involved in sex. You can only prove who the father was, through a DNA test. Only in a Dave Chappelle skit does the couple sign a contract before having sex. The vast majority of the time, sex occurs behind closed doors, and a shower and a toilet flush gets rid of all the evidence. Without such proof -- which cannot be provided -- you cannot adjudicate this issue. That is, unless you want to be like Singapore, which I heard reserves the option to insall security cameras in bedrooms so government agents can watch the couple fuuck.
The proof of what I am saying is in AIDS. There are people out there that deliberately and knowingly transmit AIDS to other people. Legally and morally, the action of deliberately transmitting AIDS is similar to the action of committing murder. You are depriving the person of their reproductive rights, and cutting in half (or more) their lifespan. Yet, it is almost impossible to legally punish someone for transmitting AIDS to one or one hundred people because there is no conclusive way to prove that the AIDS was transmitted by that particular carrier, or another AIDS carrier that the infected person had sex with. To a lesser extent, but still relevant, is the matter of whether the AIDS carrier knew he was carrying AIDS -- kinda like a woman might screw up her pill schedule and get pregnant as a result of that.