Posted on 09/09/2023 3:55:33 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
But two additional points should be made:
1. Mandatory DNA testing would help return morality as women would know they most likely could not get away with infidelity.
2. It is massive injustice when a man finds out he is not the father but the courts require him to continue child support for the good of the child.
- the man that cares and provides for the child is the father
-don’t put yourself in the position of being the object of fraud
-our society has been set up not by preventing crimes but by adjudicating after the crimes. Assumed innocent before proven guilty! We nor our society is God but our society is pushing towards trying to be God
On balance, paternal DNA testing should be mandatory and at no cost unless opted out by both parents in writing when the birth certificate is signed. That gives a clear decision point. It would also undo the traditional near-absolute legal presumption that a child born in wedlock is legitimate when the husband had access at the time of conception.
The Povich law.
” unless opted out by both parents in writing when the birth certificate is signed.”
I can hear the women now “You’ll ruin our marriage by not trusting me if you get that DNA test.” Too many men would be browbeat into submission with that option.
Make it mandatory to preclude this, it will save court time.
The only people who still oppose Mandatory DNA testing are those who hate putting the best interests of the child first. There’s no excuse for their ignorance. If there’s any controversy over a child’s parenthood then get that solved ASAP and keep in mind that it’ll only make things worse in the long run to postpone the controversy.
What government agency holds the test results?
You know...because the government is so trustworthy and stuff.
It’s better for those of us who have no doubts that we’re the daddy to take one for the team for the sake of the little ones who get deceived from Day One on who their daddy is. It should be illegal for a Birth Certificate to be finalized unless the Paternity DNA test has been done. Keep the status PENDING until its done. That way all the pre-test drama can be completely eliminated.
Also, if a woman knowingly deceives a man about being a child’s birth father, she should be made to reimburse the wrongfully accused man.
From down in the hood comes the old axiom...
“Mommas baby,Daddies maybe.”
Big Brother wants the results “just for his file”.
If the man is not the biological father, then he should have no obligation of support, and have grounds to dissolve the marriage with the wife getting no alimony either.
Big Brother wants the results “just for his file”.
I cannot emphasize enough how wrong this is. The only way I can explain it to women....some of whom seem to think its for the best even if its unfair to the guy.....would be a court requiring a woman to marry her rapist.
(audible gasps).
Yes.
Its that bad.
A more egregious and outrageous violation of a person than forcing the responsibility of fatherhood on a guy who just found out that what he thought was "his" child is really a product of his wife's cheating I cannot imagine. No way should any such judgement stand. You have to immediately question not only the legality but the utter lack of a moral compass of any judge who would ever issue such an unjust ruling.
But I don't think testing should be mandatory. The government should stay out of people's personal lives. I think mandatory testing an ill thought out response to the gross injustice of courts further victimizing the poor schlub who has just found out he has been betrayed in the worst way.
More like, trying to be Satan...
If a man wants a paternity test he should not hide behind the Government or have the privacy of other families invaded to get the information he wants without having to go on record as asking.
That is abuse and the very suggestion of having the Government entitled to this data is jaw droopingly irresponsible & indefensible.
What a disgrace. If there is a family issue that needs to be adjudicated, testing can be required by the court on a case by case basis.
Beware of any requirement done for “equity.”
The stories I could tell.
Most men don’t know even close to the half of it about women and the quiet actions they push onto the passing backdoor man drifter.
Women have conventional affairs of course, but they also do things that are so personal and secret that I don’t think even they consciously count them on their scorecard, they just lie in some remote, romantic, lock-box of their mind and heart like a treasured hidden locket that never sees public wear.
Paternity testing? How do they know what a male figure is? Are they biologists?
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