Well written and dare I say a compassionate counter to those who would vilify all men for a host of social ills.

In Canada, we have many of the same rules but one incomprehensible zinger.

If a ‘man’ is in a common law relationship for just six months with a partner, who has had children by another, then if the ‘man’ leaves the relationship, he will be financially responsible for those children, with whom he has no biological relationship: until they have finished not just high school but their tertiary education.

His wages can be garnished, often placing him in crippling penury, his driver’s licence revoked and of course he will be labelled a deadbeat dad.

One friend of mine, having found out that his common law wife of four years was having a two year long affair with a coworker, decided to go back to university and finish his PHD, something he gave up to help raise his wife’s two daughters.

Well into his second semester, the university informed him that his student loan had been garnished.

So not only do men not have the right to choose adoption for a child he may not have wanted, let alone have a say in the admittedly sole control over the decision to abort a child, he can also be tethered to the plow for decades to care for children who are not his own.

And there’s nothing egalitarian about that.