Just how many children would be put up for adoption?

I'll get bumped for this, but I think this is a pretty valid question. There are a lot of fathers out there that would love to have their children. Would the mother still give up her rights? Possibly because to sign away your rights means no child support needs to be paid. I just don't know.

Would it have made a difference to me? Yeah, maybe. That was so long ago (22 years) that I'm not sure

If both mother and father had the same rights (once the child was born) there would be infinetly more custody battles. Normally if the mother wants to keep the child she can without question. But if both parents have the same rights and the father wants the kid they will have to duke it out in court. As for instances where the father wants the child and the mother doesn't. First off, that situation is more rare. Most often the mother wants it or neither parent wants it. But in the causes where the father wants it and the mother doesn't if the mother actually decides to go through with the pregnancy she will often sign over rights to the father. Because of that I think the number of children put up for adoption would not change by much in either direction.

In most states, the fathers cannot be named on the birth certificate unless they have acknowledged paternity legally with some sort of Acknowledgment of Paternity Form filled out and submitted to the County Clerk's office or some state office. That doesn't happen a lot in most states. I worked in a County Clerk's office in Texas, and attended a seminar about this issue, it is such a huge thing. The state strongly encourages the fathers to step up, but they, for the most part, don't. Often it is their mothers that stop them! They don't want them to be on the hook for support. (More women attacking women...just noticed that)

Fathers historically have not been overly interested. There are mechanisms in place and they should be more encouraged, and Yes, I absolutely believe that men's rights should be equal t the mothers. However, it will have to be the men themselves who demand these rights and except for a handful of them I don't see them doing so. They are conspicuous in their absence.

First of all, the father doesn't get rights until a chlld exists. The woman can do whatever she wants with her body before then.

Equal rights? Well, let's try to get equal rights on those who have left women high and dry.

Your son sounds like a caring man, but the truth is that most men do not support their pregnant women leaving them alone and with child. Much adoption is truly the result of uninterested men who got their "needs met" and are off finding another.