Enough of a moral/legal dilemma for you?

Here's a story that demonstrates how far society has devolved. Beyond the complex legal questions involved, neither of the parties in this case comes out smelling like a rose.

Boy meets Girl. Boy and Girl bed down sans wedding rings. Girl saves semen after oral sex. Boy and Girl break up. Girl uses sperm to get pregnant. Girl lets Boy in on the plot by demanding child support.....two years after Baby is born. Boy is shocked and awed that Baby exists and countersues claiming insomnia and all kinds of mental anguish because he is "trapped in a nightmare."

Ain't love grand?

Where to start, where to start.

Ok, first of all, someone needs to let Boy in on the apparently revolutionary notion that if you sleep with it, there's a good chance you may have a more permanent relationship in your future -- even if it is only via a checkbook.

I used to have an ob-gyn who when asked by patients, "Could I be pregnant?" would cheerfully answer, "Have you been exposed?"

Gentlemen -- given that feminists have deemed fathers unnecessary (except, apparently, financially), you all had better be prepared what this so-called "equality" means for you. Pretty simple equation, really. Sperm+Egg = a lifetime of child support payments.

Now, as for Girl. If Boy was good enough to sleep with, save his sperm, create a precious child, and then demand he pay for this entire exercise, why wasn't Boy good enough to marry? The selfishness seems to know no bounds here. No matter how a life is created, it should never be taken lightly. Girl, by creating this baby, for whatever reason, was affecting a whole series of lives. Fatherhood is not (or at least should not be....) some kind of a la carte menu -- ok, we want the sperm and the checkbook, but not the consistency of a relationship, the stability of a marriage and the good things that come from the whole package.

Surely by now there is enough data on the damage done to children because of absentee fathers.

Not sure what could be more devastating to a child -- to know that your father feels "emotionally damaged" because of your birth or the trust issues that would have to exist with such a deceptive mother.