This came as a surprise to you? Didn't you hear about one of Toronto's "populist" mayors?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/cleaning-out-the-skeletons-in-the-family-closet/article570296/

The flip side is what % of men offloading parental responsibilities onto other men, the mother alone, or onto taxpayers in general (welfare and other subsidies for single moms).

I hear that a lot of sperm donors got nervous when the Government change the law so that both biological parents are financially responsible for biological children, regardless of how they were conceived.