Male statutory rape victims legally-required to pay child support(businessinsider.com)
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Male statutory rape victims legally-required to pay child support
https://www.businessinsider.com/male-statutory-rape-victim-nick-olivas-must-pay-child-support-2014-9
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I have no clue what this article has to do with hacker news to be honest.
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[On Topic] If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
This is from 2014.
"Although he had sex with the woman willingly and never pressed charges..."
He was a child though, and regardless of anything else that has a significant bearing on whether he has the maturity to decide to be a father.
It becomes easier to morally wrestle with questions about the fairness of child support payments in various cases, when you realize that the central question is about providing justice (aka, financial stability) to the child — not to the mother, and not to the father.
"""the court ruled that the state's interest in ensuring parental support for the young child — "the only truly innocent party" — outweighed its interest in protecting juveniles"""