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In reply to the discussion: Man fights $30k child support, says kid not his [View all]exboyfil
(17,862 posts)26. That will lead to a lot of surprises
One study showed a significant percentage of children born to married women were not fathered by the husband (I think the number was in the 10 to 20% range, but I cannot find the reference now). The study was being done for other reasons, and confidentiality prevented any additional details.
You always wonder about these things. My younger daughter did the taste test gene for Biology, and the results did not match the expected results. I have no reason to suspect that she is not my biological daughter, and, even if she wasn't, she has been my daughter for 17 years and will always be my daughter.
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This case is a very bad case of the government overstepping it's boundaries...
Kalidurga
Oct 2014
#1
Yes it is misleading as the court is going after payback of the welfare benefits and has already
seaglass
Oct 2014
#9
This is new info to me, did not know that welfare was paid back. I thought it was similar to
seaglass
Oct 2014
#72
"When a man accepts a child as theirs and takes care of them as their father biology or not..."
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#16
"Child support is for the welfare of the child not as a weapon to be used against the child's mother
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#38
Honest question- Were you addressing me or TorchTheWitch? Your post sounds more towards the latter.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#79
The man can keep loving that child as an ex-step father. But the child also has a real father
StevieM
Oct 2014
#70
Fine and dandy if that is the way these fine gentleman feel but I don't support the force of law for
TheKentuckian
Oct 2014
#107
She picked the father, not him. What is "fair" about it? It is a fact he isn't the father no
TheKentuckian
Oct 2014
#108
A neighbor raised and supported a now grown man from the time he was born, but the mother rightfully went after...
Tikki
Oct 2014
#28
In my day when AFDC was new a man who was not the father was not expected to pay for the children
jwirr
Oct 2014
#30
There's a fundamental difference in your scenario, namely that the man had accepted paternity
Gormy Cuss
Oct 2014
#47
It is in the best interest of the child to have Bill Gates acknowledged as their father
AngryAmish
Oct 2014
#81
It's in the best interest of a child to have adults accept responsibility for their actions.
Gormy Cuss
Oct 2014
#120
How long before DNA sequencing becomes part of the birth certificate issuance process, I wonder?
MADem
Oct 2014
#6
What were the expected results? Isn't that test something like seventy percent or less?
MADem
Oct 2014
#122
On all welfare applications it asks who the parents of the children are. If this was not answered
jwirr
Oct 2014
#32
+1000. Or the law can be rewritten to "presume pending DNA testing completion."
closeupready
Oct 2014
#24
They were not married. She was an ex girlfriend who knowingly and purposefully lied
JimDandy
Oct 2014
#45
He's known for 23 years he was named as father and owed support and NOW he's fighting?
Shrike47
Oct 2014
#35
The article in The Root says he's been fighting it ever since he heard about the charge...
BklnDem75
Oct 2014
#42
My problem with him 'fighting' it, I bet all he did was appear on the contempt charge and deny.
Shrike47
Oct 2014
#57
Focus. The system is the way it is because we reject a generous welfare system...
hunter
Oct 2014
#74
Call me back when he's behind bars or they are taking money from his pay check.
hunter
Oct 2014
#102
No. "Think of the children" is an emotional appeal that shouldn't trump justice and fairness.
stevenleser
Oct 2014
#117
Think about this: since he didn't 't properly contest the judgment in 1991, the State had no
Shrike47
Oct 2014
#77
But in 1991, he discovered the judgment. As the judge told him in court, he should have brought
Shrike47
Oct 2014
#109
I was referring to a judge's comment I read about this case in another article with more info.
Shrike47
Oct 2014
#115
I think anything the state intends to do to you, taking money or imprisonment wise, the state has an
stevenleser
Oct 2014
#118