When do men start to love their child?

[Kiri Love]

If not at conception, if not at birth, if not in the first 5 years of the child's life, then WHEN?

Does a father need a court order of visitation and custody, in order for them to love their children? Would automatic joint custody/ shared parenting laws, inspire more men to SHOW love to their children? With implied equal parenting laws, would more fathers then be a regular parent in their children's lives???

[Angie]

A man must know how to love in order to love. They have to know what it feels like to be loved in order to know how to give love back. No court or implied laws is going to make a man love a child or anyone more or less. If love is already in the father's heart he will have no problem loving his child from day one.