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Originally Posted by Low D Flat
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.
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That's where I take issue. You're simply assuming the father has bailed on the situation. It is not always so simple.
You don't know that the father here doesn't desparately want to have a co-parenting relationship here. Fathers, especially to children out-of-wedlock, don't have equal rights to the children unless they can afford to go to court and win a trial to win those rights. Most states award custody to the mother by default and require the father to pay child support.