Posted by R0bert, Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:49:26 PM
"I exchanged a couple of emails with them on this topic and the issue seemed to be the mothers privacy - if she'd been having an affair a paternity test could breach her privacy."

Yeah, this 'post-feminist' culture only seem to care about effects on women - men can simply rot in hell. Strangely, women seem to feel they have the right to have their husbands followed by PI's if they are suspicious but of course that wouldnt be an invasion of privacy would it? And I am sure that very few women would feel that they DONT have the right to know if their husband is having an affair. Give me a standard and make that a double.

The best interests of the child, trump all other concepts of justice to the extent that governments knowingly and willingly, assist in such fraud by actively rewarding misbehaviour and routinely punishing innocence. No-fault pregnancy is a logical extension to the no-fault divorce.

Don't get married.

Seeker:

Couldn't agree with you more.

A friend of mine was "accused" of being the father of a child and was pursued by the Tax Office and Child Support Agency. Faced with a lifetime bill for support of this child, he managed to get the child and himself DNA tested (of course with the agreement of the mother).

Guess what? He wasn't the father ! Did she admit to sleeping around? Not at first, but when presented the facts she admitted to another liaison.

however, she would have been happy for him to pay for child support for a child that wasn't his ! Mmmmm what goes on on in some women's brains?

I know not.

Ok... I'll step out of the square into adventure land...

Think about this:

-the 'Heir' dies mysteriously in the Bahama's...
-Now the Mother dies.....

Who benefits. ? the real father.

Hmmm I smell motive here..... *goes back to watching Colombo re-runs*

FU2, your friend was lucky.

“A self-reporting national poll of 5,000 women in Scotland conducted in 2004 concluded that half of the women said that if they became pregnant by another man but wanted to stay with their partner, they would lie about the baby’s real father.[11]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternity_fraud

It amazes me that anyone would feel it is justified to stop a man testing 'his own child' for paternity - does anyone know the Australian law on this subject? If men do not have this right in Australia it really shows the power of the neo-feminist lobby in this country.