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My position is the same for both genders.Nobody should ever be legally obligated to be a parent unless they of their own free will decides that they want to be a parent. And giving consent to sex, by itself, should not automatically be considered to be consent to parenthood.Here in Norway were I live, we’ve already come fairly close to this ideal for women. Here’s some of the steps we’ve taken towards that goal:Contraception is widely available, and sponsored if you’re under 25.Emergency-contraception to be used after sex is also widely available. (though regrettably not free; I think it should be!)If contraception fails or isn’t used, a woman who finds herself pregnant but doesn’t wish to be can have an abortion at zero cost, we’ll even reimburse her the travel if it exceeds 10km (about 6 miles).If she’s given birth to a child, but doesn’t want to be the legal parent for the child she can adopt it away.Men also have the option of using contraception, but women have 3 different alternatives for avoiding parenthood even after sex took place; and men have zero.The argument that all biological parents are automatically financially responsible for their biological child isn’t applied consistently; if it was, we’d require single mothers who adopt away their child to pay child-support on the basis that it’s biologically their child — but we don’t do that. We also don’t consider sperm-donors financially responsible for the resulting children.So why should we consider a man that becomes a parent because the woman he’s having sex with deliberately lies to him, or even rapes him, to be legally responsible for the resulting child?Lying about contraception is, when it’s the man who engages in it, a crime. [1] Unfortunately, as far as I know, this far only men have been convicted of this crime. (if you’re aware of any counter-example where a woman has been convicted after lying about contraception to her partner, please let me know!)The argument is that a woman who gives consent to sex with a condom can NOT be considered to have given consent to sex without a condom; an act that has higher risks, for example the risk of pregnancy. So a man who lies about using a condom is effectively having sex without consent.I agree with this thinking. Getting consent for one thing (for example sex with contraception), and then actually doing a different and more risky thing (for example sex without contraception) should be considered rape.I applaud it when at least some US lawmakers want to have the laws in USA written that way too.“Consent is not up for discussion, it is a requirement for the entirety of any sexual interaction. Stealthing violates an agreement between partners and is a dangerous form of sexual assault,”[2]But if that applies when a man lies about condom-use, then I think fairness demands that it also applies when a woman lies about whether or not she is using contraceptives.In summary:Nobody should be legally coerced into parenthood, both women and men should always have a choice about whether or not they want to be legally considered parents, with all the rights and obligations that come with it.Lying to your partner about contraceptive use when getting their consent to sex makes that consent invalid and the sex that happens rape. Men who become fathers because they are victims of rape should especially not be legally obligated to financially support the child.Footnotes[1] Man Convicted of Rape After Removing Condom During Sex Without Consent[2] Lawmakers push for ‘stealthing’ to be classified as rape

There really is no single place to obtain a Parental Consent Travel Certificate. In cases where a minor is travelling alone, on a school trip where their parents are not present, with a non-guardian adult, or with a single parent where the parents are divorced, you can find a form in many places on the internet. The main thing is, the form gives your signed permission for the child to travel without you and many places, such as school or the airlines will want a copy with your signature on it, so they have your acknowledgement that the child is permitted to travel.If you google “Parental Consent Travel Certificate”, you will find many places that have forms created that you can just download, print, fill out and sign and send with your child for their travel.

The current law in all the countries I’m familiar with is that if the child is biologically his, then he is legally responsible for the child regardless of whether or not he wants to be a parent. If you read the other answers on this question, you’ll see that there are several who say that the man made that choice when he consented to sex with the woman, and that every child has the right (and perhaps the need) for two parents to support it.There’s several problems with this line of argument. I’ll list three of them:Arguing that consent to sex comes with implicit agreement to accept any and all possible consequences of sex, including parenthood is an argument that only holds if you’re willing to use the same argument towards women. And indeed some pro-life people do precisely that; they argue that if a woman is not prepared to accept all the possible consequences of sex, including the risk of pregnancy and parenthood, then she should not have sex in the first place. Personally I disagree with that view, I think it’s perfectly OK for people who do not wish to become parents to nevertheless have sex. (They should use contraception though, but accidents happen!)The law doesn’t actually care about the man’s consent. Men who are the victims of rape, and indeed even men who were so young when an adult woman had sex with them that they could not even in principle have given consent are nevertheless liable to pay child-support. This is an atrocity, but it’s nevertheless what the current law in many countries actually say. [1]The law in several countries doesn’t actually say that a child has the right, or the need, for two parents. In some countries there are no barriers to a single woman getting a child by way of a anonymous sperm-donor. And even in countries where that’s not allowed, women are free to do the same thing either by traveling to a country that offers such services [2] or by deliberately saying “don’t know” or “decline to say” when filling out the field for father on the birth-registration forms. (around 5% of Norwegian children are now born with unknown father, this is not a marginal thing) It’s not morally consistent to claim that allowing men to opt out of fatherhood violates a child’s rights to two parents, but allowing women to decide that they will have a child with only themselves as a parent does not violate a child’s rights.To a first approximation, the law where I live (Norway) and several other countries can be summarized as:A Child has the right to two parents if the mother desires it so. Allowing the man to opt out at his discretion would be unfair to the child. If however a woman should wish to bring up a child with no legal father, then that’s perfectly fine and does not violate the rights of the child.This state of affairs is in my opinion sexist, and I don’t see how it can be rationally defended. Nevertheless this IS the law. (at least in some countries)Footnotes[1] Statutory rape victim forced to pay child support[2] The rise of the BABY VIKINGS