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• When a male causes a female to be with child, he
  has a duty to her and his baby that can only be
  fully exercised in the marriage circumstance
• I affirm Don Martin

2

• You cannot bind such on others!
• To bind on others is to pronounce them in sin
  if they elect not to marry.
• As an elder, you are running rough-shod over
  others and it is either your way or the highway!

3

• We believe there are options and that a male may
  elect not to marry the woman carrying or having
  his baby and still be a faithful Christian and
  father.
• Options are in general
• Abortion.
• Female will raise child alone (career).
• Adoption.

4

• Our son needs to finish school.
• Daughter needs to finish school.
• He has fallen out of love.
• The marriage probably will not work.
• Not enough money.
• They are immature.
• My son was tricked by sex.

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• If they marry, they will be miserable.
• Some one is not being considered
• The female carrying the baby.
• The mother of the expecting girl.
• The father of the expecting girl.
• The grandparents.

6

• Emphasis is usually on the couple, as a rule the
  male who has caused the female to be with child.
  

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• We hear about the options to not marry and
  provide a family, but what options does the baby
  have?
• We hear about the rights of the male who
  provided his sperm, but what rights belong to the
  baby?
• 1. Right to be born with his fathers name (cp.
  Heb. 12 7-10).
• 2. The right to a home have live in mother and
  father.

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• 3. The right to the nurture of a God ordained
  home (Gen. 1 26, 2 24).
• It is in the God ordained home that the child
  learns love (Eph. 5 22 6 4).
• They learn discipline.
• They experience security.
• They learn headship.

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• They learn what a family is.
• The child learns about God from teaching and
  example.

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• When a male causes a female to be with child, he
  has a duty to her and his baby that can only be
  fully exercised in the marriage circumstance
• I affirm Don Martin