Thursday, July 28, 2005

Now That's a Pop-sicle

So I hear on the news that a man was forced to pay child support for a child that shouldn't have been born. "What?" you may ask. Well, here's the story.
This couple was married and they were having trouble having children. So the man underwent a procedure which ended with the hospital freezing his sperm.
The couple then divorce and the man stops paying for the storage of the sperm with the understanding that, if her was no longer paying for them to store it, they would destroy it... that was the contract. Unbeknownst to him, his ex was still making the payments and was regularly making a withdrawal. Finally, 2 and 1/2 years after their divorce, she comes to him demanding child support for "their" 8 month old son. He had no knowledge that she was doing this and, in fact, he though his sperm was destroyed.
Now, for the kicker... he lost the case. He has to pay $600.00 a month in child support.

Now, I realize that this is no way the child's fault, but I would either want 100% custody of the child and never let him know his mother or I would walk away completely. It's not like a night of unprotected sex or drunken... whatever. This was totally behind his back and he had no part in it at all.

I don't feel that he is legally or morally responsible for this child at all. No more so than an anonymous donor at a sperm bank.

Hmmm... your thoughts

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