@101: Vasectomies for the win.

@100: Source for your yes answer to 99? I would be very surprised if the father could do that.

As far as your request for my source, I'm not sure exactly what you want sourced, but here is some information on California's safe surrender law:

http://www.babysafela.org/whatislaw.htm
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/99-00/bill/se…

" A person designated pursuant to Section 271.5 of
the Penal Code shall take physical custody of a minor child 72 hours
old or younger pursuant to this section if the parent or other person
having lawful custody of the child voluntarily surrenders physical
custody of the child to that person."

And North Carolina's:

http://www.safesurrender.net/faq.html

Note that the laws do provide for an attempt to find the father, but since it's done anonymously that's not always going to be possible.

@102 Child support is not based on the gender of the parents. I have no idea why you would think that mothers would not pay but fathers would. Do you think the same about alimony?
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/dcs/ has no indication of gender.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-… 17.4% of sole custody parents are fathers and 1 in 8 custodial parents due child support are fathers.

Your sources on safe drop off sites do not prove that mothers can abdicate responsibility but fathers cannot. If a parents of either gender suspects that their child has been dropped off at safe surrender sites, they have the ability to go and contest their paternity/maternity.

You also haven't sourced your claim that women can claim that they don't know who the father is and give the baby up for adoption.

TERMINATION OF THE BIRTH PARENTS' PARENTAL RIGHTS
In order to adopt a child, the parental rights of the birth parents must be terminated. This step in the adoption process is extremely important. Your attorney will try to obtain a signed consent to the termination of parental rights from each of the birth parents. It is very important to get accurate information from the birth mother regarding the identity of the birth father. If the birth father refuses to sign a consent, he can be served with notice of a hearing and his rights can be terminated by default if he fails to contest. If the birth father is unknown or unavailable, his rights may be terminated by court order following publication of notice. If there is more than one possible birth father, the possible rights of each of the men must be terminated. The procedure for termination of father’s rights varies from state to state, so in an interstate adoption,
we will need to coordinate the legal work with an attorney in the other state.

http://www.skellengerbender.com/publicat…

@104: You're putting words in my mouth. Of course mothers pay child support when the father is the custodian of the child. That wasn't the question. The question was whether or not a father can claim paternity and gain custodial rights when a mother puts her child up for adoption.

Nor did I ever say that fathers could not also give up their children to safe surrender sites independently. They could also do that, but that would require them to have the kid in the first place, and this discussion was about mothers who have the kid on their own. And I have no idea how a parent of either gender would be able to get a child back that the other parent dropped off, because it's anonymous. You'd have to test every kid dropped off in the state. If you look at California's law, it provides that only the parent who dropped the child off can get the child back within 2 weeks.

As far as women claiming they don't know who the father is and putting the kid up for adoption, look at the paragraph you quoted: "If the birth father is unknown or unavailable, his rights may be terminated by court order following publication of notice."