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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is there fixation on getting the government to mandate something that people already can do freely?[/quote]

They can't. It is incredibly hard for a biological father to can an order for a test to establish paternity.[/quote]
Not if he’s already the legal father.

Once again, this is how the government wants it, so don’t look to them to help you undo someone else’s standing with paternity.

The state doesn’t want a situation where mandatory testing reveals that a woman’s partner (the presumed father) is proven not to be her baby’s biological father, so another guy submits a DNA sample for analysis, thinking he’s the biological father, but testing reveals that the baby’s not his either. No one else comes forward for testing or is named by the mother, so now there’s no one who has established paternity. Mom can’t support baby on her own, so she and baby end up on government assistance.

From a public policy perspective, it’s better for the wrong guy to support the kid than for no guy to support the kid.

Also, under your proposed system, would every single man have to submit to DNA testing upon his 18th birthday, to be stored in a database in case paternity needs to be determined someday or would it be optional for unmarried men who aren’t seeking to establish paternity? A system that helps men escape legal paternity for children who aren’t theirs biologically, but doesn’t determine who is the biological father, leaves children fatherless. The state isn’t going to go along with that. To get automatic paternity testing for newborns mandated, the government would have to have a database of every single man’s DNA. I don’t think men would be very happy about that.[/quote]

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