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If your point is that it is easier for a single woman to have a relationship as a mother than a single man would as a father you will have no argument from me. [/quote]
This has been my argument all along - I wonder why it took you three reiterations of it to see it.

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But the reality is that there are lots of single men who father children and could have a relationship with their child if they so choose. [/quote]
These men don't "father" children by design.  They are thrust into biological fatherhood by wiling women.  Without permission of the woman, that wouldn't have happened. A man deliberately looking for a woman to have his children without offering marriage wouldn't get very far.

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The courts would enforce the rights of a father in that role and that would be without having to marry the mother. If you are not aware of this then you are ignorant of the law.[/quote]

Paternal rights enforced by the court do not equal the experience of full-time fatherhood.  How much time does a divorced or never-married father without full custody really have with the child? How much control does he have over the child's life and character? Not very much, compared to a full-time father.

[quote=Anonymous]
Marital status is not a prerequisite for the courts to recognize and award paternal rights to a man.[/quote]
No it isn't. But it is, for full-time parenthood and full-time control over the child's life.  It is true in case of a woman, too, because divorced mothers with joint custody have to share control with the father.  But for a woman, it is immeasurably easier and cheaper to have a child outside of marriage in a way that factors out the father completely.  For a man, that would very hard, next to impossible for a regular earner. [/quote]

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