Damn straight. This is what poverty looks like in America. It looks like single parents who don't get consistent support from a working second parent. I'm quite comfortable assuming that a pattern that applies in 95% of such cases is pretty likely here unless/until there's information to the contrary.
It's a fact that a parent of either gender who runs away rarely (ever?) gets arrested for endangering a child. It's the parent who sticks around and actually tries to do the job who ends up in jail.
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I have no problem with him having responsibility as well if he's co-parenting the child.
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Ah, but that's the rub. Suppose he isn't co-parenting. Suppose he bailed. Then he doesn't get in any criminal trouble. That's a flaw in the way our system is set up.