*This post is NOT about financial/paper abortions *

Please base this debate on the assumption that the child/ren were planned, wanted and are victims of their parents relationship breakdown.

I see a lot of men online talking about child support and divorce r*pe and how unfair it is to men. As I understand it, child support in the UK where I live and possibly in a lot of the US, is based on a % of the non resident parents earnings, and reduced by the % of care that parent provides for the child. In the UK, 50% shared care between parents is encouraged and almost always granted by courts where the father requests it unless there is good reason not to, which would result in no maintainance being payable. Usually, men don't want the responsibility of parenting 50% of the time and don't request it in court. Of course this leaves mothers to parent the majority of the week, at their own cost and expense of their earning potential, which is why men are legally expected to contribute to the associated costs of raising children.

If this isn't a fair system then what would be?