Ordinary Banana

Talk to me about these penalties. Enforced labour? Mandatory docked pay? Imprisonment? Stripping of passport? Chemical castration?

I jest. Financial penalties steeper than those which already exist. (But only if they outright flee their responsibilities. I think fathers who have gone through separation but still want to be in their kid's lives pay enough.)

what about mothers who abandon their kids?

The same.

has me sort of thinking i wonder how many cases exist where children would be better off without such parents i think i support the moral groundings of this policy but i worry about at least two unintended consequences :/

Parents keeping kids they shouldn't keep? It's a fair point. I suppose I see giving kids up for adoption differently to leaving the other parent in the lurch but I certainly wouldn't want to keep abusive assholes hanging around longer than necessary.

how do you square the pro-life view with the fact that genetics is pretty much everything?

The same reason I don't support letting disabled kids die