Mr. Sincere,As I read your post originally, I mentally reviewed a number of situations that I\'ve been personally acquainted with. First, as a woman, I am familiar with a couple of those conniving manipulator types. Yes, I definitely, definitely agree with your point about not having the child\'s best interest in mind. I think about this really sorry, feeble-minded woman I know who tricked her guy into getting her pregnant. It was quite deliberate... She is also one of the worst mothers I know of, until she moved off into the sunset with her kid and hubbie in tow... I really feel bad for that poor little boy she has; he\'s one of the saddest examples that not all women know anything about being a loving mother. I\'m not going into detail, but believe me she\'s a pathetic mother. The father (later, husband of said-pathetic-mom) is a loving father, but not much in terms of parenting or anything else, eh. I definitely think women need to have a good sense of themselves and the realities of mothering, versus the father, who really don\'t need to know much beforehand... ultimately, as the primary caregiver, a woman has got to have a child for the right reasons, even if not conceived \"fairly.\" The only \"equitable\" conniver-turned-mom I know just treated the father as little more than an involuntary sperm donor; fortunately for him, she didn\'t expect anything from him, but that also meant he was ultimately deprived of any future contact with his kid. She didn\'t want him involved at all with parenting, just the necessary genetic material. The father is a decent man who was basically the the fly... as in, \"Welcome to my parlor, said the spider to the fly...\" I think he would\'ve made a decent father given the opportunity, but that choice was ultimately removed from him.Btw, the father in the first scenario (with sorry-pathetic-mom) was warned about her intentions... he didn\'t care nor think about it seriously... until afterwards. I consider him equally irresponsible and useless since he had clear knowledge beforehand but wouldn\'t accept responsibility for taking care of it.