>>662
"I do appreciate having my voice out and opinion when it comes to abortion, but I will respect my wife and let her make the final decision, it is her body that is going to be affected afterall."
Lovely. This doesn't mean all men should have no say just because you don't care. Some men might, you know.
"If I didn't want to be the father of a future child from my wife, then I'd make sure to wear a condom and ask her to use any contraceptive available. If she refuses, however, I'll still accept any consequence that may occur."
Totally reasonable. If you don't want the kid, and she does, the responsibility is then yours to prevent the pregnancy, since you don't want it. However, on the flipside, if *she* doesn't want the kid, and you don't care, or do want the kid, it is then *her* responsibility. This is fair.
"If my wife became pregnant and I didn't want the child but she did, I would not force her to have an abortion against her will."
You can't do that legally... I hope. Abortions shouldn't be allowed except with mutual consent. Child support... 50/50.. each parent pays half. Fair. Mutual rights, mutual responsibilities.
"I will still accept my half of the responsibility for the child after birth or I will talk to her about adoption. If she doesn't want to go with adoption then that's fine with me, I'll still father the child even though I never wanted it to start out with. Afterall, it is still half of me."
Reasonable. Again, 50/50 responsibility and rights.
"Children are of course both the reponsibility of their parents 50/50. I do understand that however, some men are not good fathers and so the mothers may take full custody of them. The same goes vice versa if the mother isn't well fit, then the father may take full custody."
Of course. Note, when I drew up my list of points to make for the thread in
>>642, I made sure to use the words 'responsible' and 'able'. I agree here.
"However, if both are able-bodied parents, the mother may have the children if she pleases, since I do believe that mothers put a lot more time and care into raising them than the father, not to mention she was also the one that had to experience change of body and labor, it's hard work. Although, I believe the child has the say to which parent he/she would rather be with."
The father should at least get to see the kid half the time, assuming he is provably and evidently an able & responsible parent, and overall good person. That's fair. 50/50 rights, 50/50 responsibility.