I disagree good sister.
I have a son whose mother assured me that she was still on birth control when we discussed not having a baby. This was not a fly-by-night relationship .. and there is no real relationship without trust. I trusted her as anyone in a real relationship would do.
Does this mean she didn't want a baby, you didn't want a baby, and both of you agreed there would be no baby? Because (and this is just a hunch) it seems that she may have wanted a baby all along and only paid lip service to your position, and hoped that if she became pregnant that your desire to continue the relationship would override the no-baby decision. I'm sorry you were fooled. Maybe women's motives are more obvious to me just because,

; but you were really trusting.
Needless to say, she stopped taking her birth control pills. When I discovered that she was pregnant I was stunned. I asked her why she would stop taking birth control lmowing that I did not want her to get pregnant, and she said because she wanted to have the baby even if I didn't. She knew how am I am about my kids and she knew there was no way I was going to walk away from the baby .. although I certainly walked away from her.
WADR, this is such a "man" position. SHE stopped the pill, SHE knew I didn't want a pregnancy, SHE knew how I am about my kids, SHE knew I wouldn't walk away from a baby. Apparently you knew deep inside that this wasn't a woman you could be with permanently but you still trusted her with total control over contraception.
Additionally, I have a daughter from a "defective" condom. I ended up raising her by myself. She's in college now.
You have my respect for taking on this huge responsibility but I have to ask, how did such a smart guy get taken in by these kinds of woman?
My point is that birth control does not always work .. and when it doesn't work, men have little choice or control.
Hey, I'm Catholic. We're prime candidates for birth control that doesn't always work.
Even if he wanted to have the child, but the woman does not, there is no way he can make her. If he doesn't want to have the child and she does, she wins.
Agreed. It's why I'm saying people in the dating world have to be very careful with their own choices, and with those they choose to trust.
What I've hoped would evolve in our society is a bit of respect for fatherhood and the plight of fathers. In this society, motherhood is more important than the child.
I guess you mean unmarried fathers.
The narrative is that men don't care about their children. But I used to volunteer for a father's rights group in Seattle. I took hotline phone calls from men who needed advice. I had to quit because I couldn't take listening to the pain .. listening to men on the verge of suicide because they've broken up with the mother of their children, the courts are treating them like shit, and they're being denied access to their kids.
I believe kids should be raised in stable families, too. That's why both men and women have to take the utmost care over contraception if the relationship isn't about building a family together.
Just saying .. there is another side to the story.
Thanks. For the most part we agree.