ofriceandruin [none/use name]
Just have the state pay if one or both partners don’t want the child. Not a huge problem.
There’s so many comments in this thread that are basically carbon copies of the “listen, i want universal healthcare too, but we don’t live in that world so we need to make this an individual thing and ‘tighten our belts’” except they apply it to universal child support. It’s ok to be revolutionary and not budge when it comes to universal healthcare, education, etc. but when it’s child support they all of a sudden become incrementalist libs.
This whole “this is what adults do” rhetoric is straight out of the right-wing playbook, as I’ve said many times before.
The solution is simple, state child support and no more shaming making this an individual problem. I thought we lived in a society? Not some kind of thatcherite hell-hole.
Sure, but why is this rhetoric all good when it comes to things like “defund the police” or “tax the 1%” or “medicare for all” but then people turn into big time austerity Biden libs when I suggest universal child support? It strikes me that there’s something deeper going on.
To all the cishet women realizing that sex sometimes makes babies: take a celibacy pledge, don’t have sex until marriage, swear off sex with fertile people forever, 69, go to church and come to Jesus. I recommend listening to Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson as well. Remember, because of lobsters and hierarchies… you should be trad.