Here is one of the fucking reasons why:

this sums it up..

But they are the same analogy. In both cases someone is forced to be a parent—forced to be responsible for raising and paying the expenses of a child—against their will.

HOLY CRAP YES YOU ARE. MY GOD, can you even IMAGINE your standards applied to a woman who has been raped by a man?!?!?!

Yes, we should. It's this idea that only violent rape is real rape that ends in so few women even bothering to bring charges when they're attacked. Violation is violation and needs to be taken seriously. Your logic doesn't compute — violent rape is pretty much the only kind of rape that is taken seriously (and even…

"And ultimately too, if he can get out of it without a rape conviction then every dude can claim rape and get out of paying child support. "

Some of the comments on here are incredibly disheartening. As a guy, my ex-girlfriend turned me on to Jezebel over a year ago, and I've loved it for it's mostly level headed discussions on feminine issues (not to mention the realist slant on Hollywood and trashing the trashiness.) Raised in a red-leaning household…

"However, you can't bulldoze the rights of one victim in order to take care of another."

I don't understand this point of view one bit. He was violated and impregnated her without his consent. To me it would be like saying, someone assaults you and you fight back, if they are injured, YOU should be paying for THEIR medical bills for the rest of your life. How does that make sense?

Look, I appreciate that a lot of people here understand that child support is for the child and it shouldn't matter a whole lot what the parents have going on because the child deserves support.

yes

Unhearted. Yes, you're wrong. Its like asking a pedestrian hit by a drunk driver to pay for the damage to the car. Fucking stupid. Sex under false pretenses of contraception is bad enough when it results in an unwanted child (i.e. woman lies about protection/BC/sterility), but this is just disgusting.

I think I see what people are trying to get at when they say that this man should have to pay child support. Let me explain why they are wrong.

You could argue then though as well that no man who had sex with a woman without wanting a child should have to pay child support cause he had not the option of abortion. This would lead though again to the: Its your problem cause your a woman! A man is not able to have an abortion without the ok of the woman which is…

YES! Jesus! This is the paradigmatic example of codified victim-blaming! He's the victim of a crime, of which one of the outcomes is a child. Saying he should pay child support is like saying that it's his fault she got pregnant and he's responsible for the result!

If a woman were raped, she went through with the pregnancy for whatever reason, and then the man who raped her got custody of the child, do you think she should pay child support?

So he should adopt his rapists child, to get out of paying his rapist monthly for a child he didn't want to have?

It was a child he did not want to have. He was raped and now he has to pay for that till the child grows up? That doesn't seem very fair to him, to have to pay out money monthly to his rapist, reminding him every time that he was raped and has to suffer the consequences.

Maybe he wants nothing to do with a child that he had not choice in creating.

I vote yes. You want him to pay money to his rapist. To me its paramount to saying a woman should be required to care for her rapist's baby.