Exclusions from the Agenda for the 21st Century
| Methods which are deliberately excluded from the Agenda |
| It is useful to place proposals into context. It is also useful to identify proposals that have been ejected / excluded from the Agenda, together with reasons for this. |
| Exclusion - Choice For Men / C4M / Male Abortion |
In the USA especially, there is a concept called "choice for men" (and sometimes called "male abortion"). It has no place in a coherent future system of child support, and should be replaced by proposals & lobbies for the earliest available of the next generation of male contraceptive, see Advances in male contraception - overview.
Here is a "Choice For Men" (C4M) - overview. It links to several other pages of analysis, including a Commentary on the C4M FAQ.
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| Exclusion - Primacy of "social parenting" |
The UK uses bio-paternity, based where requested on paternity tests, as the way of judging liability for child support. (There are obvious exceptions such as adoption & and gamete donation). All "Western" nations & states should adopt the same policy. They probably will over the next decade or two, but some are looking backwards not forwards, and need to get up-to-date and prepare for the 21st Century.
Here is a summary of how the UK goes about Presuming and establishing paternity.
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| Exclusion - Automatic residence for fathers / earners |
Sometimes it is proposed that rather than the higher earner paying child support to someone who may be out-of-work, the higher-earner should care for the child directly, since s/he (typically he) can afford it. Sometimes it is simply proposed that fathers should have residence automatically.
This Agenda instead proposes shared residence, sex-neutrality, and symmetry.
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| Exclusion - Proposals for abortion law |
Abortion is very controversial. Laws differ significantly from country to country. Women differ vastly in their views on having abortions, with some feeling relatively little concerned, while others reject the action for a range of personal (including moral & religious) reasons.
This Agenda proposes that the child support system, including the social conditions necesssary for it to work satisfactory, should not rely on abortion. If abortion is used in addition, that is up to those concerned. So "prevention is better than cure" - the information & means of making the required choices should be available before sex, and need to be used. This needs better contraception, but also means that C4M, which introduces complications & new information after conception, is also excluded.
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