All morals and principals are lost in the persuit of power and wealth!
By their own hand the courts have demonstrated they are morally bankrupt.
Its a sad day when the courts themselves, bring the administration of justice into disrepute

Maternity fraud is when a mother convinces her childs father that he is the real daddy,when it is a lie.
Paternity fraud is when a man tells a child he is the real father when he is not,and the man gets some financial gain.
Maternity fraud is alive and well. Now DNA testing has brought out the truth.
I did notice that my friends two girls did not look like sisters.
Anglo Indians have always noticed their children may be born Brown or Black.
For generations people have put this down to "throw back."
Now with DNA testing mixed racial groups may find out the real truth.

This case is SICK and not bloody well fair for any hetro -sexual male living in the Western World and is likely to affect future fathers from entering into a fraudulent war zone for any possible budding relationship . This disgraceful legal precedence will leave a dirty taste in many shocked fathers from around the globe . Well done you corrupt judicial fools you are really making a great job of destroying the dignity of every man on the planet !! How far are you dishonest judges going to push men ?

So.... when are men going to be able to take legal action for such abuse of trust for financial gain. I would hope that any wrongfully targeted "fathers" could now investigate civil action against the "mother" of ex-conceived children, for whom they have been paying child support.

Don't men a have right to NOT pay for the support of children NOT conceived by them ? What a crock of sh1t this court decision is.
How contemptible is it that a man has to ask his partner; "Is that child mine?" as it is being born.

When are women going to stop accusing men of wrongs and abusing them just because they are male? Don't they get enough crap from life without being told to just shut up and pay up ?

Some young men I know have actually become so withdrawn from social discourse that they refuse to interact with women, since all they get is abuse. What is wrong here?

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"Don't men a have right to NOT pay for the support of children NOT conceived by them ? "

Yes, they have such a right, and Mr Magill has recovered the child support payments - at least in the sense that they have been used to cancel a debt relating to a child that was indeed his, and in relation to future liabilities for that child.

That's not what the case was about. Mr Magill had sought other compensation for expenditure he'd incurred (not child support) and emotional impacts. It's this compensation that the court has found he cannot obtain.

Sylvia.

There is a study by Kermyt Anderson of the University of Oaklahoma claiming that only about 2% of all men are bringing up children under the false belief that they are theirs. This includes where parentage is discovered for reasons other than suspicion about who the father is. For those with enough doubt to have the test done for that reason, the rate is 30% according to this researcher.

What the High Court is doing essentially is continuing the long trend since the 1970s of removing values from the decisions made in law and society in the Western world. That's fine for these judges who are no doubt rich and smart enough never to become the victims of paternity fraud. But it's a kick in the pants for the rest of us. Of course the 'M' word is now taboo anyway among such social sophisticates of the inner suburbs.