Again, Judges in Missouri have ordered a man to make support payments for a child he didn’t father. The childs mother in this example has stated repeatedly that the man is not the father. Yet a state agency says he is. The appeals court agreed with the state that this man should be thrown in jail. This man and others like him caught in a national issue that pits fairness for men against what is considered best for children.

Every weekday, huge television audiences tune in to the spectacle of a dysfunctional adult and the object of their dysfunction are used in a daytime ratings race. When it comes down to it, never knowing who their true father is only part of what the children will suffer. Nothing good comes from the display of a mother testing many men to find out who fathered her baby and forever follow the child.

Many men nationwide are trapped into paying child support because they either are declared such administratively, or do not contest paternity. Unlike the Missouri Legislature several states recently have changed laws or are considering changes that would allow men to introduce DNA evidence after the deadlines have passed. Several bills in the Missouri House and Senate would have allowed that here, but the assigned committees did nothing to bring this legislation forward.

In most states, a reputed father can be declared without his knowledge, making the very short time to contest useless. A period of one year is the standard in Missouri, Kansas, and many other states. Child support usually must be paid until children turn at least 18. Judges typically follow a clear legal process designed to financially provide for children regardless of who the real father is.  This is tantamount to state sponsored paternity fraud.

If there is a requirement of paternity testing before any requirement of child support a great deal of expense, pain, and family disruption can be avoided.This also gives some women the chance to take responsibility for their actions. Lies that hurt so many lives in the long run will no longer be possible.

And by long run we mean a very long run.  In one of these cases a Missouri Court found “…is now held to be the father of (the child) for all purposes and all time,” , “despite both mother and father’s statements to the contrary and without any determination of that relationship by a court of law.”

It is unfair that a man has to pay for a child that is not his, regardless of true paternity a target is still required by law to support the children even if he did not father them.  It is obvious that in Missouri paternity fraud is rampant.

So frequently we hear about womens rights and dead beat dads.But what about responsible men who want to do the right thing? Where are the rights for these men? Along with mandatory paternity testing their should be a mandatory law stating that the woman should pay back the child support received over how ever long period the time due to the fact that the child/children are not his.

 

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