.... but the thread was created for having an open discussion. As of right now, the discussion is still very intelligent and hasn't broken down into emotion filled banter.
This QUEStion will currently always be answered... each do as their concious allows.. because although the child is the Man's and Woman's, the uterus is the Woman's..
My thing is that for every example, there's an equal counter-example. I have a female friend, right now, who has a daughter that the biological father doesn't know about... because she didn't want him to know about it ON PURPOSE...
She robbed him of fatherhood by omission. No Man can rob a Woman of Motherhood by omission cause alllll Women knooow that the child is hers and the pregnancy can't be hid FROM HER
I'm not a violent Man.. but if an old girlfriend showed up at my doorstep with a 8-12 year old walking mini-me child of mine, I'd take amazing restraint on my part not to kill her.. She's robbed me of: seeing my child born, naming my child, seeing all the 1st for the child (steps, teeth, words, etc)...
And she would've robbed the child of having a relationship with my side of the child's family.
The shame is that all of these contemporary moral issues that we've touched on have taken/are taking place...