To Pay or Not To Pay

While doing working on my research paper about child support, I discovered the following article:

If the parents (the two mothers) agreed that the donor would not be involved in any way, I think that should include child support. In my opinion, the biological mother should seek child support from her former partner instead of the donor.
When a gay or lesbian couple separates, does that mean that the “other” parent is not financially responsible for the children?
This situation is unfair to the donor because he is being asked to pay child support for the three children. By agreeing not to participate in the children’s lives, he relinquished any responsibility, including financial. The article does not state whether or not the other partner adopted the children. Even if she has no legal responsibility, she should have a moral obligation to the children. After all, she is their mother. Although she did not give birth to the children, she and her partner sought a donor in order for them to become parents. Does she think since the relationship has ended that she is no longer the children’s parent? When a heterosexual couple divorces or separates, the non-custodial parent is still responsible for the children. I think that this should apply to same-sex couples as well.

--Blackberry