@dantheman Neither is the other's property, but the parent(s) made decisions to bring that child into the physical, and thus have some responsibility to them. The child is incapable of taking care of itself, or even getting itself into the care of someone else, they are basically prisoners, and it's pretty generally accepted, even in Euro-American culture that you have to care for your prisoners.

I highly recommend checking out Stefan Molyneux's podcasts on parenting & childhood development, he includes a lot of great guests and research. Start with the oldest posts, and pick a title that speaks to you.

The key right now is a cultural shift, getting people to understand how humans develop and the kind of damage that is being done. As long as the masses accept things like mass murder (they call it "war") and assaulting children (they call that one "spanking") as normal & acceptable, nothing is going to change this.

As far as child-support, settling disputes, creating standards, etc., the key is doing things in the least violent way possible. If we can change cultural values instead of making violent threats (calling them "laws"), then we get a longer lasting, more effective solution, rather than just a different kind of violence. We don't need to have the perfect solutions right now in order to know what doesn't work and start moving away from it.