There was once a time when men and women got married if they unintentionally conceived a child. This was done for financial reasons and because it was an acknowledged fact that children have the best chance of success (especially boys) when there's a mother and a father raising them under the same roof.
Well let's start here. This statement is, of course, not true. Marriage was not based upon some notion of giving children the best chance. Marriage takes many forms and is practiced for many reasons in different cultures. In Christian societies some people do marry to give children legitimacy. That was common when I was a child. Several of my friends married to 'make an honest woman' out of their pregnant girlfriend and to remove the stigma of bastard birth.
Now women can just go to the state for resources when they have children. Women can now collect welfare checks and food stamps and make men pay child support for children they never wanted.
This ignorant argument just sets me off. Men have 100% control over whether or not to have children. They can keep their equipment in their pants and failing that use birth contol. A vasectomy makes a vas deferens you know.
However, men are forced to offer financial support for children that they never wanted in the first place.
Once a child is born the argument is not about what the man wants or what the woman wants. It is about what is good for their child. I am a conservative. I believe that men should pay for their children. Obviously you do not believe this way. Or are you one of those conservatives who believe we should force women to have children that they don't want? Well obviously you are.
You said:
In my opinion, men shouldn't be forced to give financial support for illegitimate children.
I object to the term "illegitimate children". Children are people with the same rights and privileges and you and I have. It is seriously fucked up for you or anyone else to consider them illegitimate.
So your solution, which goes against everything either a liberal or conservative would believe is that only women should have responsibility for children, that the state has no role at all in the care and protection of children and that men should care for their children but should not have to if they find it inconvenient. That is rediculous.
But wait! What's this? You said:
Not to mention the fact that it gives women the opportunity to trap men, which is why I never take a woman for her word when she says "I'm on birth control".
I see. But if you do NOT decide to be an adult and take responsibility for your own birth control then your error in judgment should be paid for only by the woman and child should you decide to spend the child support money on moon shoes. That my man is a very immature position to take. Happily just about everyone in the world disagrees.