[a fool in paradise]

There are people who will also argue that if you’ve been paying child support for a child that you later learn, through DNA testing, is not really yours (and that you have no legal reason to expect any continued relationship with that child), you should STILL be financially obligated to that child because you “became” dad.

I don’t mind holding the men to their obligation. I think it is SICK that N.O.W. calls it “freedom” to be able to kill a child that is inconvenient for “one” of the two parents. That child has rights. Abortion is child abuse.

[Natural Law]

I think it is absurd to create the straw-man of subsequent DNA testing potentially disproving fatherhood to undermine an overall obligation to support ones children. Of the three parties involved in these cases; the husband, the wife, and the children, those with the greatest moral rights, but least legal rights are the children. Fatherhood isn't just biological and genetic. Once you have formed a bond with a child you have an obligation to maintain that bond both financially and emotionally. Kids, even those not biologically yours, are pretty damned special and rewarding.