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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would the point of such a policy be? Seriously, what is the premise of this post?![/quote]
Men want the legal right to establish paternity when they want it or evade paternity when they don’t want it, and they want the law to enforce this in the way that is most convenient for them, so that even if they deposit their sperm inside another man’s wife, they have an easy path to claim the resulting child.[/quote]

Given that the mother could claim or reject paternity of her unmarried partner to either retain sole parental rights or seek child support either immediately or in the future, why shouldn't men have legal rights? Why are you intent on continuing policies that are blatantly one sided?

Before paternity tests there wasn't much of an alternative. But we can do better now.[/quote]
If a married woman gives birth to another man’s biological child, but her husband wants to claim paternity and raise the child as his own, I’m not sure the mother can deny her husband’s paternity rights, even if she wants to. The law spells out how this is handled. The woman or the biological father would have to use the legal system to pursue paternity for the biological father. He would not have paternity rights or obligations based simply on the woman’s desires.

Likewise, if the woman wanted her husband to have paternity rights, but the biological father pursues them through the legal process, the woman’s preference is not the determining factor in legal paternity.

Women didn’t write or pass these laws. Women aren’t the majority of legislators who could change them. Women aren’t the majority of the Supreme Court who could overturn them. Why don’t men change these laws? Probably because it’s not in the government’s interest, but feel free to ask the men who have the power to do something about them.[/quote]

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