[mlmr]

I know I am going to be hatefully flamed by some men, but I have had a problem with men who disown children who are born withing the marriage who are not their bio kin. The children born within a marriage belong to the marriage and the parents legally have been through the ages, their marital mother and father. As the fact that father hood is more than a sperm donation, father hood is instead a legal entity. if your wife has a child while you are married to her, you should be responsible for it. That child needs a father, and you, sir, are it. that is the hallmark of being a grown up.

[1234]

HUH?!

DNA only 99.9% reliable as testing device for paternity?! ANY comment, by anyone who knows sumptin on matter? many tx

[Melas]

Most of that sounded well and good, but I have a problem with the complaint about time constraints, such as Louisanna's 10 years. I'm sorry, but if you let a kid call you daddy for 10 years, you forfeit the right to start challenging paternity in my opinion. Likewise, I'm of the opinion that as a mother, if you let your child call a man daddy for 10 years, you have no right to screw that kids mind up by attempting to take that away.

[Lazamataz]

Even though DNA evidence has been used to free falsely convicted murderers, and individuals unfairly convicted of rape and other crimes, courts [do not] accept it as proof that a man should not have to pay child support.

Insanity.

In other words, welcome to American law.

[be131]

Have there been cases the other way around? I.e., the husband is scr3wing another woman, she gets pregnant, they divorce, and the wife is sued for child support?

[mlmr]

Thank you for the spirited discussion. I have to get back to work. I realize now that the next time freepers gather, I, mlmr, will be tarred and feathered by the Divorced, Child-support-paying contingent of FR. So I will stather myself in baby oil and bring my own feathers (I prefer chicken), See you later guys!

[CharacterCounts]

Instead of acknowledging near-perfect proof of a child's paternity, courts in most of the 50 states rely on 500-year-old English common law, promulgating an epidemic of paternity fraud

The law is changing to keep up with the times.

Years ago, there was no good method for determining the paternity of a child and bastard children were social otcasts, so there was a presumption that a child born during a marriage was the child of the husband.

I cannot speak for other States, but the law in Michigan does provide for the ability to determine that the father was the parent. If, however, the husband wants to continue with visitation and act like a father, he will have to support the child. Most men have developed attachments to the child so the continue to support him or her.

[Bob J]

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