this is retarded.

Sperm donor liable for child support, judge rules

this has got to be about the stupidest thing I've seen in a long time. I don't even know where to begin.

the kid has two parents, a lesbian couple. the kid was raised with two moms. he knew he had a father, and had even had contact over the years. the guy was nice enough to send birthday cards and crap like that. he was doing what he thought was right. it could be argued the kid is better off knowing who his father was, even if he didn't know the guy personally. a sense of familial history, knowing where you came from and all that, to say nothing of having an accurate genetic background when it comes to medical problems down the road.

but now that he's eighteen, and ready for college, evidently his moms didn't want to pony up the bill? that's a fucking joke. it flies in the face of gay rights when it comes to rearing children, it flies in the face of feminism by showing that these two women DO need a man for something, and it just flies in the face of common sense.

the guy donated sperm. he had nothing to do with the kid otherwise. he didn't get to make decisions on how the kid was raised, probably didn't get a say in the kid moving across the country, and essentially had no rights as a parent for the first eighteen years of the kid's life. so why should he have to fork over tens of thousands of dollars to pay for this kid's college education? that's utter horseshit. the relationship between father and son consisted of a damn zygote.

the women that are perpetuating this strongarm tactic, this blatant robbery, should have their damn kid taken away. they're horrible human beings, and don't deserve the privilege of warping a young mind.