While I do not like compulsion,it will happen probably has to.
But paternity? please this is not an attack on womens rights.
It is in fact the child's right to know his or her father.
I am truly stunned that some women,even those not affected by such tests want to stop them?
Why?
Yes many are going to find dad is not dad but no difference in male or female exists in sex both can, often do have many partners.
Children's rights count too.
While funny it is also true , in some bush towns the definition of confusion is fathers day.
Just what is more important mums rights or children wedding a sibling?

Dear Robert,

I wasn't sure of the statistics. That's why I said
over 20%.

Dear Belly,

Marrying a sibling - is an excellent point.

I think that a seperated partner should have the right to request a dna test prior to paying any child support as it would be unfair for one to pay out for anothers child. As for making it law at birth I feel there are to many risks here so leave it be I say.

Thankyou Foxy. Someone got it.

StG.

Hmmmm I see your point but Like RObert said it isn’t quite that simple nothing ever really is. Have you considered?
• Adopted Children? imagine the abuses, shocks etc.
• Surrogate Children? the mental trauma in some circumstances
• Donated what eggs/sperm et al?(imagine 10 off springs turning up on your door claiming 20 yrs later demanding a cut of your property or the press?
• Then there’s children of rape victims
• Children of heinous crims…. A child of say‘one of the bodies in the barrel’s murderers’?
• What I call “children of deceit. Not all mums are victims
• Children of Incest?
• Children of deceased dads?
• Children rejected in wills?
How would we deal with the rights of the above?
All of the above I have dealt with as a crisis councillor

Points like sibling marriages and hereditary diseases are issues but I agree that if the test results go any further I too would object strenuously.
BELLY is right it is about the rights of the child but sometimes the whole truth can do a lot of unnecessary harm to a lot of innocent people

REHCTUB has probably got the best solution test when they apply for child support or etc and immediately destroyed once paternity has been established.

Dear examinator,

If compulsory DNA testing was the norm at birth -
the issues that you mention would be dealt with
at the very beginning to be resolved by the parents
instead of placing the burden on the child at a later
age with counseling and therapy.

If the facts are known at birth, no
matter how traumatic they may be for the parents,
it's easier to deal with the matter and move on,
than find out the truth later in life when complications
have set in.