John Mortell’s blog

Been wanting to do an article on this anyway and then i came across this.

Frankly I think the article is little more than one-sided propaganda which cleverly sidesteps the issue but the case itself is interesting to me.

Am I the only man out there in the modern world who finds the current situation with regards to children to be grossly unfair? Should a man get a woman pregnant in this modern age, he finds himself (now im sidestepping here but in this article im assuming abortions legal(ish) everywhere seeing as Ireland is an exception rather than the rule) in a situation where the mother of the child can:
1)choose to have an abortion against his express wishes or
2)have the child against his wishes, slap him with child support for 18 years and then proceed to make sure that the man never gets to know the child. The end result of this for many men is a stranger who you have paid for for 18 years and who may have been raised being told that you are the antichrist.

Now im sure there are some of you out there who are going to do the same as the writer of the linked article did and talk about the large number of women who are left to raise a child by themselves and who are not in a position to go to court to get child support etc.

Not too be overly harsh, but thats not the point.

There is a good chance that given the option, most men may choose to opt out of their responibilities for children they have helped to create. However the current situation is one that suits no-one especially the fathers. Personally im put in mind of the American revolutionary slogan ‘no taxation without representation’. With the modern man and his children perhaps its time to adopt a similar idea?

Regardless of anything else – perhaps it is time that we acknowledged that for many men the current system is ridiculously unfair and a change would make life better for everybody – father, mother and child.