Social Ethics: The Financial Abortion

Financial Abortion

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July 14 , 2010 Financial Abortion

A sociologist by the name GoldScheider proposes that men should be allowed by law to escape from financial responsibilities the moment they tell their partners before sexual intercourse that they would not want to be fathers incase of conception . After the man asserts this before the lady conceives , he would not be responsible financially the moment she gets a baby . This is what is referred to `financial abortion . The sociologist asserts this having in mind that

currently , fathers responsibilities are recognized in terms of money (Potts , 2010 . Is this assertion morally , ethically and socially right ? This assertion really threatens family institutions . Even though the world perceives fathers responsibilities from financial point of view , it is not right to justify what already is a misconception on people 's part

First , it is not ethically and socially right to think of fathers that way but all the same people do . However , instead of correcting this , we are coming up with other principles that would further the misconception thus worsen the situation . The moment we adopt this kind of thinking , a time will come when fathers would be insignificant in their children 's lives or in the families . Some partners , who would have divorced long time ago , are still together for the sake of the children . The moment we perpetuate the belief that fathers are significant in their children 's lives financially only , then it would give these fathers who...