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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The government already has a very clean, simple, cheap way to establish paternity when married women give birth: the child is presumed to be a product of the marriage and the woman’s husband is legally the father. Switching from that method of determining paternity to paying for tons of DNA testing and potentially blowing up families has no benefit to the state, so there’s no reason for them to require that. Furthermore, civil rights organizations would fight against huge swaths of the population having to turn over their DNA to the government when no crime has been committed.

A man can have DNA testing done without involving the government as long as he has access to the child, which, presumably, he does if he’s legally the father.[/quote]

How do you become the legal father without testing first if you're not the husband?[/quote]

I can answer this! I had a child with my unmarried partner and they have a form, I think it's called acknowledgement of paternity or something like that? They had a notary come to our room and we both filled in a form where he affirmed that he was the father and accepted the legal obligation of paternity/wanted to be on the birth certificate. I have heard this is different in other states, but in DC where I gave birth if you aren't married you can't just put someone on the birth certificate without them agreeing.

From what I understand if the parents are not married and aren't together the dad can sue for to establish paternity or the mom can bring a child support case and they will establish paternity during that. I did not have to deal with either of those things though. [/quote]

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