Should Paternity Tests Be Mandatory?

Now that’s an entrepreneur who came up with the right idea at the right time. “Who’s yo baby daddy?” Is what I would call my business.

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If you sleep with a manipulative succubus, you made your own bed. You weren’t “victimized”, you were thinking with the wrong head.

If you have doubts you can always refuse to sign anything until the test comes in. If you have doubts, you slept with the wrong woman.

Lol. Geeze, that would be the name to pick, for sure.

Gotta side with Sloth on this one. It’s fine to knowingly adopt a kid knowing you’re not the biological father, but getting duped like that, I have to believe is illegal in some kind of way.

I bet nobody here has ever done that…

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That is blaming the victim. “Shouldn’t have worn those clothes and walked down the dark alley.” Perhaps it might be a useful tip. But it doesn’t change the egregious act, the horrible consequences, and with whom the guilt resides. I mean, I could blame grandma for falling for a tech support scam, I guess. But it doesn’t make the fraud any less evil.

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Nah just 2 daughters years apart both premie. First one came in at 3lb10oz second one came in at 2lb11oz

Also the 2nd time around wife had to take some special anti stroke meds. Figured we wouldn’t tempt fate going for 3

I did not know about over the count paternity test.

So if my kid come out looking like neighbor I can do a paternity test in private with just $30

No, I would guess not. They are both OK, I gather?

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And that of course assumes infidelity was a know proclivity for this woman. Frankly, it could be the one and only time the woman may have been unfaithful.

Gosh, pfury. Belated cograts. Happy to hear things worked out.

Look nobody is saying the law and application is fair. It isn’t. But the solution is not to force every birth to include a paternity test. It’s a waste of money and more government coercion.

If you don’t like family court law then vote for people who will change it. But don’t make me buy shit I don’t want.

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If your child is black and neither of you are, that’s a hint-and-a-half for your ass.

Personal paternity tests aren’t cheap

Yup. Youngest had a series of shitty allergies that forced me into very expensive formula, but that’s about it

Youngest one just turned 3. She’s still in like the sub 5% in height though, so shes CONSTANTLY mistaken for a much younger kid lol

Oh, don’t worry, the actual father would be billed for it alongside the child support he should be/should’ve been paying.

Technically, she is. Like I said, I am happy things worked out for you.

My wife was super-sick with our daughter rendering her our last kid for sure. She shouldn’t have made it, her umbilical cord was attached to the amniotic sack, not her belly. But she’s a happy healthy, drama queen of a 16 yr old now…

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Funny thing is, first daughter was also 6 weeks early, and she’s taller than literally every kid in her first grade. It’s hilarious.

I’m 6’1" and a beanpole and she’s a splitting image, wife is 5’3" and 2nd daughter is a splitting image of her. It’s so spooky it’s become a bit of a running joke in our families

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Your other daughter is just a late bloomer, which has it’s advantages later in life. 10 fingers, 10 toes and good health is the most important thing as you well know.

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Mandatory paternity tests wouldn’t be my first solution. The more equitable solution is just changing the laws so that:

  1. Proof of genetic non-paternity ends paternal responsibility unless the man knew when he agreed to it.
  2. Women and their clandestine lovers can be prosecuted for fraud criminally and civilly when they are shown to have cuckolded a man.
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Offer and available are not the same things.

Is it still ‘evil’ if the mother is unaware that her husband is not the biological father? Is it still ‘evil’ if they went through a rough patch, but have mended their relationship?

No, because it is still recommended (after age 21 or so).

Albeit rare, PKU is a condition for which the morbidity rate is 100% if not caught at/shortly after birth. Does false paternity carry a similarly dire prognosis?

That’s such a memorable turn of phrase, I just had to quote it.

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