Therein lies the rub, TJ.
If the guy doesn't cough up some child support, then you have a single mother who has to turn to the government for support (That is, hopefully at last resort and if all other efforts have failed.). Making their child the perfect little citizen: government educated, welfare'd to adulthood, and weak.
I would rather see scumbag, sh!theel fathers brought before a judge and garnished into paying child support than the taxpayer's dollar supporting the little bastard. The child did not get to choose his parents.
Hindsight is 20/20 and a little discretion goes a long way, but I'm no responsible for some other guy's kid.