"If a man is confident enough to sign his name to the birth certificate, then he is on the hook for life. And that's the way it should be."

This is why is it called Paternity Fraud! I guess if this guy knew his wife was shagging the local professional football team then maybe, although even then I would say no. What we are talking about are women who use at least one man and possibly two men to get what they want. Without deception this does not work. That is why DNA fucks everything up for those who perpetrate paternity fraud.

The social contract that formed from this was everything inside the marriage was his and everything outside the marriage was hers. Once upon a time, the man was automatically awarded custody which meant the mom would lose her children even if day was paying. If the kid was a bastard then she had control but got no money. They did not have to prove paternity. It was assumed that the children were his weather or not they were.

This crap the we are still going through is a hang over from the days when we could not tell for sure who the child's father was. That is all done now. All that is left is a lot of wimpering and clinging to somebody else's wallet.

By testing for paternity at birth, it protects more than just the father. A child deserves to know who his or her real father is. Just because mom wants to perpetrate a fraud does not give her the right.

Navelgazer,

DNA has changed the game forever. Before no man could ever be certain. Now everyman can be certain.

The rule used to massage this unpleasant reality was "anything inside the marriage was his, and anything outside the marriage was hers". That is back when divorce was rare and affairs were risky and few. Everybody had something to lose.

The problem with that is that these abortions of justice are all about protecting mommy not the child.

Randy G,

That is why I support mandatory DNA testing before paternity is established. It can be done with all the other tests that are run in the maternity ward.

The State has a huge stake in this which is why that are so insistant on immediately pinning fatherhood on the fist sucker they can. They may never even find the bio-dad and the odds of mom paying anything are slim and none.

The most successful paternity FRAUD would be one where the non-biological parent never finds out. The least successful paternity FRAUD would be one would be where the FRAUD was detected when the kid popped out (like having a black baby born to two white parents; whoops). What you are saying is that the bond that both the child and the non-bio dad have made as a result of the FRAUD is their fault and not the biological parents fault. That is a really fucked up way to view things. Remember, not only is the non-bio dad cheated in the worst way but the child loses the contact he or she should have had with their actual parent. All of you are assuming that the bio-dad knows that the child is his or that there is even a child at all. The mom could be cheating both men.

Yminale,

No sympathy for Mike L

Yes, what happened to him sucks but remember he CHOSE to accept his daughter as his own regardless of paternity. If Mike L didn't want the financial responsibility he should have made a formal complaint as soon as he found out about the DNA results.

Honestly if his daughter was adopted and he then claimed that he didn't want to support her because she wasn't his biological daughter, we all call him a jerk.

So the lesson today folks is love doesn't solve problems, cold hard critical thinking does.

— Yminale

JackSparx,

I think the right thing to tell the judge is that I will give this child my love. Of course what the judge and the mom wants you to say is that you will give you financial support at which point you need to say that is between the mom and the biological dad.

The stats I have read is that world wide, between 5 and 10% of children do not know who their real biological father is. In spite of culturial differences, humans tend to cheat at roughly the same level irrespective of race, country, laws, etc. The 30% probably comes from companies where you can send in a snip of hair and check.

Paternity fraud is to men what rape is to women; it will never be acceptable. Ever. Yes, some women are clever, manipulative, and predatory enough to use the attachment a supposed father develops with his supposed child to blackmail him again but that does not excuse her or absolve her of her guilt. Paternity fraud is a double crime. Not only does it financially rape the supposed father of the child but is abuses the child by depriving him or her of a relationship with his or her own biological father.

Thanks to DNA, men can now be as certain as women as to weather or not a child is his. This is not exactly welcome news for the cucucko birds out there. The best solution is to simply start testing every childs DNA at birth. This would quickly smoke out the frauds and allow the biological father to establish contact with his or her children sooner rather than later or never. My guess is that this will never be popular with the cheats but they are just scum anyway.

The laws will eventually catch up with the science on this. Shockingly, it might take a decade or two but eventually this crime will as dead as ceasar.