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I disagree with Neal1421 - just because there's no legal obligation to support his child - yet - does not mean the dad is not under a moral obligation to help support the child. In that sense, he is a deadbeat dad.
Moral is completely different than legal. Since you want to view the moral side of a situation, let me pose this question to you:

Did you know that when a father pays ANYTHING toward his child's care BEFORE a court orders him to, the laws do NOT require that the father be given any credit for those payments? The law considers the monies to be "gifts", and a court can legally (and often does) order retro CS be paid, forcing a father to PAY TWICE?

How moral is that?