Daddy Nobucks: When Involuntary Fathers Are Forced to Foot The Bill
“Under the safe harbor laws in most states she can simply drop the child off at a hospital or firestation and walk away no questions asked. Totally anonymous. The child is then a ward of the state, and the mother has no financial obligations for the child.
The father effectively does not have this option, nor does he effectively have any capacity to prevent the mother from availing herself of this option.
How is it that the mother can abandon her parental responsibilities even after birth, while a father cannot?”
I would like to see a test case where the father drops the kid off at the firestation “no questions asked.”
I surmise that the Court would find a tortured way around saying “babies are the property of women” but yielding the same result, and landing the man’s ass squarely in jail.
