I'm with you, Tom Thumb. If you opt out financially, you have to opt out emotionally as well. It would be as if you were putting the child up for adoption and the other parent were adopting him or her.
The woman can legally give up her parental rights and responsibilities in two ways: abortion and adoption. It seems clear to me that the man will never have any say in abortion. But I see no reason that the man can't have his own version of adoption.
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