Reply #73: They shouldn't be outlawed

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These tests are quite useful for fathers, that suspect they're paying alimony for a child, they didn't conceive. The mother isn't charged for anything, it's perfectly legal to cheat your husband in Germany. But if you happen to become pregnant, it's fraudulent to let your regular husband pay for the child - at least without his consent. Of course the woman has the right to get alimony from the biological father instead, if she is willing to name him.

Open tests are always possible, in professional labs for example, but I guess not many fathers will do it openly, because if their suspicions were wrong, their relationship is in danger because of this. It's like a woman hiring a private investigator, if they suspect that their husbands are cheating them. It's true, that relationships have real problems anyway, if those measures seem to be necessary, but I don't think this will change in the near future.

BTW: This new law is a typical German law, that is, it doesn't have any connection to the real life. Of course fathers will still buy tests via the Internet and secretly test their children, if they feel the urge to do that. Some people in Berlin are just feeling like wasting tax money, so don't take them too serious.