[Poseidon]

...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.

I would argue that if infidelity is the cause then the legalities of the marraige are in question. After all, is not infidelity illegal if in no other sense that the moral one? And is not the continued deceit a detracting factor from the marriage? While I think I understand your argument, I disagree with the implicit premise that the woman has no responsibility to the relationship and that the father caught in such has the burden of raising another man's child.

[Free the USA]

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[mlmr]

I am not saying that the woman has no responsibility. I am saying that the law has protected children from their parent's poor behaviors for years by placing the child in a protected environment and assigning responsibility to the father and mother for the upbringing of the child.