Comments on: DNA Test All Children

By: Pelle Billing

Pelle Billing — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:53:11 +0000

Yes, a child has the right to know who its biological parents are, and tricking a man into taking on parental responsibilities for a child that isn’t his can lead to disastrous consequences for the child down the line.

I’m glad that you as a woman agree. Men and women alike would have to be more responsible if all children were tested. No individual, man or woman, could escape from their own actions.

By: Mahitabel

Mahitabel — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:38:47 +0000

I am a woman who agrees with you. I’ve known a few women who have lied or hidden the real identities of the father of the child. I believe a DNA test at birth of these children would help to keep woman honest and maybe even avoid having children in an adultrous relationship. I know of one man who is raising a child that is not his. The mother turned out to be a drug user and very promiscuous. After 7 years he left the marriage with the child, the ex, out of anger told him the child was not his, he had a paternity test done and his ex was right. The child is now 14 years old and has serious behavioral problems. He remarried to a wonderful lady about 6 years ago and together they have 5 kids and a wonderful life. The behavioral problems of this one child affects the rest of the family. My question is what has the most influence Nature or Nurture.

By: Pelle Billing

Pelle Billing — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:24:16 +0000

I suggest that he talks to a lawyer. If he cannot afford one then perhaps he can find someone who works pro bono? I’m not an American though, so I’m not an expert on the legal system in the US. Perhaps someone else reading can help?

By: windi

windi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:21:41 +0000

I have a brother who knows he concieved a child with a girl who just had a baby however she is back with ex husband and he wasn’t allowed to hold baby at hospital because they said he wasn’t the father. Her mother called him the morning the child was born to let my brother know and he would like to get a paternity test but doesn’t have 500.00 to do so or information on getting started on what to do he is a single parent and low incom father of one and we are in need of what to do ? Please help us!

By: Non-biological father jailed for child support

Non-biological father jailed for child support — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:24:10 +0000

[...] rights, the legal system still lags far behind. I’ve previously written about my proposal to DNA test all newborns, and to do away with the old fashioned laws that presume the husband of a woman to be the father, [...]

By: Pelle Billing

Pelle Billing — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:01:55 +0000

Good point Danny. DNA testing of all children will only be possible to introduce once the social climate has changed significantly. As long as we only listen to women and view women as weak victims it won’t be possible to change the laws regulating paternity.

But the reason for DNA testing all newborns has nothing to do with not trusting women. Instead it would be a reform aimed at making the legislation gender neutral. Maternity is determined based on biology only, so why not do the same for paternity?

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:10:39 +0000

Pelle:
In fact, part of the reason I would like to see all newborns tested is that women wouldn’t have to feel that they are suspected of infidelity, since it would be considered a standard procedure, no more no less.
Sadly enough I think that if something like that were introduced women would protest it on the very grounds of, “Don’t you trust me??!!” Which I guess could be ironic because a deceptive woman will use that exact same question in a softer tone to trick a man into taking in a child that is not his own.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:38:27 +0000

Well if being suspected of infidelity is inhuman then a lot of women treat their husbands inhumnaly, and I think that’s an exaggeration was of describing that kind of behavior. What I meant by inhuman is if a man rejected a child, refused to have it in his house, and it turned out in fact to truly be his own child, that rejection would be inhuman treatment of the mother if she was put in a position of having to choose between that child and other children she already had.

By: Pelle Billing

Pelle Billing — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:43:42 +0000

Yeah, I agree that that could be pretty inhuman. In fact, part of the reason I would like to see all newborns tested is that women wouldn’t have to feel that they are suspected of infidelity, since it would be considered a standard procedure, no more no less.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:26:57 +0000

Wow. Then I wonder about the rest of that. I wonder for instance on what basis a man would repudiate a child of his wife’s - suspicion of infidelity? That can be pretty inhuman if he’s wrong.