It's because often women assert that men should have no say in reproduction and then demand he pay out the ass regardless of whether he wants the baby or not.
If a man doesn't want a baby he should either not have sex (waow) or triple-wrap. And wrapping it up isn't a guarantee, so you take your chances. And when you take chances with that and the odds aren't in your favor, then you have obligations, especially if you don't contribute time. Not $50/month payments wrenched out of you, but a full half of all the costs it requires to house, feed, clothe, insure, educate, and otherwise support and develop a child - and that includes incremental increases in the caretaking parent's housing-related (and all not strictly individual) expenses as a result of having more bodies to house. Plus equalizing the damage done to the caretaking parent's career and prospects because her time and effort obligations to the child limit her ability to work and move ahead - leaving work for kid illness, appointments, teacher meetings, activities....
Lol, it's not possible to adequately compensate. And there is ZERO momentum for having unengaged parents be truly accountable.
Now, of course you said "I'm saying increase child support and take away gibs." Did you mean what I just laid out?
And either way, that doesn't jibe with the sentence of yours I quoted above. Yes, he SHOULD pay out the ass, in exactly the way I started outlining above. And a new type of debtor's prison if he doesn't.
What fucking gibs? Over 75% of single mothers - never married, divorced, widowed, whichever - work, and most do not qualify for gibs.
Single mothers' participation in the workforce - 77.1% - is higher than for women overall. They often end up having to work less or for shit pay because they have to be available to take care of their children.
Your (and the whole discussion's) focus is on a slice of reality at best.
Chart below is in the thousands and shows rates of 2.3 - 10% of "single mothers" getting "gibs."
Characteristic | Married spouse absent | Widowed | Divorced | Separated | Never married |
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Not receiving public assistance | 788 | 551 | 4,206 | 1,658 | 7,265 |
Receiving public assistance | 20 | 13 | 239 | 124 | 743 |
Speak English, motherfucker.