More accurate headline: "Teacher repeatedly rapes male student, becomes pregnant."
The double standard is real. Just to add to how terrible this is, the kid can be on the hook for child support.
Depending on where you are, it probably wouldn't even go to court. @felixo77, he wouldn't have to pay child support as long as he is legally a minor. Most likely what would happen if he would sign away parental rights, releasing him of any financial or legal obligations. Depending on the courts and his parents, she may end up losing custody altogether, leaving the child to either be raised by relatives or a ward of the state.
A man can't sign away parental rights. Also scenarios such as this have already been ruled upon and the precedent set, in particular by Hermesmann v. Seyer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer
"It is one of the earlier cases now cited in U.S. child support guidelines which say that in every case that has addressed the issue the court has decided that an underage boy is liable for the support of his child even when the conception was the result of statutory rape by the mother."
A man can surrender parental rights
'Most state laws will require the consent of both the custodial parent and the parent whose parental rights are to be terminated. A qualified family law attorney can assist the parties in drafting a consent agreement for the termination. Once a petition is filed, the court may appoint an amicus attorney, or a “friend of the court”, to represent the child’s interest in the termination. The agreement of both parents that the termination of parental rights is in the best interest of the child will not guarantee the termination. The courts must also make a finding of “good cause” for the termination.'
Given the father is a child as well, he would also have a amicus attorney that would state it is in the best interest of both children that he not have parental rights or obligations. Obviously, every state is going to have different. The case where the father has been ordered to pay are rare. (cont.)
Unfortunately, there is another, even darker side to the child support cases involving rape. In the case of a woman being raped and getting pregnant, if she keeps the child she can be ordered to allow the father, her rapist, access to the child, even if he has been convicted of the crime. Also, a woman can give up a child without the consent or even knowledge of the father, and there is little to nothing he can do about it. There was a case of a soldier who returned for a tour to learn his wife had given up their daughter (after she had originally told him it was a boy who died at birth). She had gone out of state to one with looser restrictions in order to do so. Last I heard he was still fighting for custody 2 years later. Obviously there are serious flaws all around in these laws, and personally I believe they should be rectified, clarified and should be enforced unilaterally, regardless of individual states, but that isn't likely.
You can make jokes about damn near everything. The Holocaust, that feminist youtuber that shot and killed his co-host this year, 9-11, nothing is off the table.
The double standard is real. Just to add to how terrible this is, the kid can be on the hook for child support.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer
"It is one of the earlier cases now cited in U.S. child support guidelines which say that in every case that has addressed the issue the court has decided that an underage boy is liable for the support of his child even when the conception was the result of statutory rape by the mother."
'Most state laws will require the consent of both the custodial parent and the parent whose parental rights are to be terminated. A qualified family law attorney can assist the parties in drafting a consent agreement for the termination. Once a petition is filed, the court may appoint an amicus attorney, or a “friend of the court”, to represent the child’s interest in the termination. The agreement of both parents that the termination of parental rights is in the best interest of the child will not guarantee the termination. The courts must also make a finding of “good cause” for the termination.'
Given the father is a child as well, he would also have a amicus attorney that would state it is in the best interest of both children that he not have parental rights or obligations. Obviously, every state is going to have different. The case where the father has been ordered to pay are rare. (cont.)
I bet you hold all FSers accountable to them, too. ;)
They're YOUR rules. Why don't you tell ALL of FS, so we can abide by them?