It still amazes me that a man will pay for some other dude's sperm creation. Raising another man's kid is about as beta as it gets.
You know what? I sort of agree to what you're saying but for different reasons. For the life of me... as much as I try to find some sort of excuse... it still eludes me as to why someone would give birth to a father/motherless child. It requires such a clusterfuck of back-to-back bad decisions that... I dunno. I understand the girl falls in love with the asshole. What I don't get is why, when she gets pregnant (for whatever reason,) she does not decide to end the pregnancy. I mean, assholes are not going to stick around, and when told that they are fathers-to-be they will pull the asshole card (leave the relationship) as soon as they're told. Which leads me to the kicker: You fell in love with an asshole, he got you pregnant and... you decide to continue with the pregnancy in the hopes that... what? He takes you back?
And, of course, the poor schmuck that inherits this fucking mess (the miserable wife and the unwanted child) has no idea this is what's coming to him. THIS is what kills me.