Not your child? TOUGH

[danzig]

Read this on another forum, a month old but still rather mindboggling
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/lead.../s_474207.html

Hudson, an anesthesiologist from Finleyville, Washington County, said a DNA test he commissioned showed another man had fathered the 12-year-old boy. Hudson was miffed when a judge recently ordered him to continue paying $2,800 a month in child support for two children, even though he fathered just one of them.

Basic jist of it even if you arent the biological father (even if you believed you were!) you still have to kick up child support if you divorce. Its mind boggling to me the lack of rights fathers/males have when it comes to children, first we have little say in things as far as custody and abortion goes...its a woman's body her right the moment you do the deed you lose any legal say in the matter and now it appears even if it wasnt your DNA that did the 'deed' you still have no rights. So what is next? If you have a child go to your wife/gf and say aw look the baby is so beautiful oh and btw can we get a DNA test on it to make sure its mine?

We really need a revamp of laws to take into account modern problems..of course there is little will to do so because the current laws so heavily favor women that to suggest change comes off as an attack on women's rights. Hell in New Jersey recently a divorced man who was paying child custody was ordered to continue to pay support AFTER the woman died and he had sole custody of the children. If he refused to pay they would simply take it from him so he had to continue to pay it into an escrow until someone finally got around to the paper work....1 year after she died. The fact he was raising, caring for the two children and still had to continue to make the payments putting him in serious financial problems didnt seem to matter to the state.

[Last Roman]

BS. what a retarded law.

Please don't avoid the auto-censor. Thank you.

-gig

[LoZz]

well its unfair to pay for a child that isnt his, BUT he should pay for the one that is his, dont mess around is the message

[danzig]

well its unfair to pay for a child that isnt his, BUT he should pay for the one that is his, dont mess around is the message

Yeah he should but court is forcing him to pay for both because 'biological' link doesnt define parental rights....now obviously any guy who has raised a kid as his own is going to view the child as his own dna or not but why should a male be FORCED into it if the kid isnt his. As I said all the cards are in the hands of the woman, from moment of conception on and now some courts are going even beyond that it doesnt even matter if the guy is the father if he was there and THOUGHT it was his child its his. A male is suppose to be emotionally bound and by law but a woman isnt. Needless to say provoked a rather interesting convo with the wife. If my daughter wasnt REALLY *mine* it wouldnt matter to me, in my head and heart she is my little girl but should a court have the right to dictate that? It doesnt cross the line and force a woman to give birth to a child she doesnt want even if the father wanted to raise the child so why are males special with the way they get treated?

[harm]

This is a great movie Cinderella you might of forgot about. Sub stepmother for father.

Danzig, it takes a village and a family .

Both are interesting reads.

[harm]

I always pullout. Children are ruining the world. Seriously.