off-topic Should paternity fraud be criminalized?

[Kross]

One of the biggest kinds of fraud that is rampant now is "paternity fraud". This involves a woman giving responsibility of fatherhood of a child to a man that is not the biological father. Paternity fraud can devastate a man that is a victim. Some even commit suicide.

Do you think that paternity fraud should be criminalized?

 

[Harsh World]

It shouldn't be allowed to begin in the first place.

Can you expand on how this is done further? Is it a newborn that is delivered and the man is unaware, or is it a child that was under his care for years before figuring out the truth?

 

[King Belieal]

It shouldn't be allowed to begin in the first place.

Can you expand on how this is done further? Is it a newborn that is delivered and the man is unaware, or is it a child that was under his care for years before figuring out the truth?

Let me helps. A woman gets pregnant for a man and tells another man that she is been seeing that he is responsible. The man innocently takes financial and fatherly responsibility of the child till a day that he would by some luck know that the child was not biologically his.

It is a civil issue in my country though. But men get so devastated with that condition. I think it should be criminalized.

 

[Harsh World]

Let me helps. A woman gets pregnant for a man and tells another man that she is been seeing that he is responsible. The man innocently takes financial and fatherly responsibility of the child till a day that he would by some luck know that the child was not biologically his.

Sounds like a paternity test could've solved that.

Is the financial responsibility a court-ordered issue or an "I'll take responsibility" issue on the part of the man? It sounds like if the courts ordered the payment and amount, they should also order a paternity test before proceeding.

I think it should be criminalized.

It should.

I'm just trying to determine where and how exactly the man took responsibility. Because if he just took the child and raised it for 5 years before finding out the truth, there's a moral or ethical dilemma that the man now has to face as well, which could be devastating to know, but at the same time, that kid is now a shining image of him if he's doing his job right.

 

[Apsara]

If you love the woman, what is the problem with supporting her child, provided the woman also loves you very much. I don't think the man should take responsibility of woman's child if there is no love between them

 

[King Belieal]

If you love the woman, what is the problem with supporting her child, provided the woman also loves you very much. I don't think the man should take responsibility of woman's child if there is no love between them

Do you mean that love should be blind enough to still take a woman that tricked you to raise another man's child? I would never accept such a woman back into my life. I don't know what I would do regarding the child if I was in that shoe.

 

[Yama]

If you love the woman, what is the problem with supporting her child, provided the woman also loves you very much. I don't think the man should take responsibility of woman's child if there is no love between them

Agreed. If the relationship is a result of love and devotion, there shouldn't be an issue of taking take of the man's child from another woman, or woman's child from another man.