Yes required. No they should not be allowed to demand an abortion, that is sick.
It takes two too tango... Unless the man was held down and raped or drugged and had his semen stolen then he has a responsibility to the child that he and his child's mother created.
I don't understand why a man should get away Scot free for something he's responsible for... He's unlucky I'm the sense that once a child has been conceived he has no rights on weather its born or not but he is lucky I'm the sense that he's not the one carrying the child or the one to give birth. Theres a reason why theres more dead beat fathers than dead beat mothers... Its easier for them to get away... Lucky them.
Shared custody is different but usually theres a primary home, usually its the mother but if it is in fact the father then she should be the one to pay child support but theres so many complications... Some good women loose their children because the father is a liar with money and vice versa... That's a cruel and unfair reality.
Shared and civil custody, which ever parent earns less, which is usually the mother, the other parent should help. It is not easy to be a single parent and its not up to their new partner to provide though I don't know why anyone would be with someone who didn't look at their parents child as a part of the parcel, they should but still irrelevant. Birth parents are equally responsible but many things need to be taken into account
