[Physicist]

Eventually, someone is going to come up with an inexpensive genetic test, and our whole society is going to fall apart at the seams.

On the contrary, it will enforce moral codes if a love-child cannot be hidden. The stakes of adultery are raised.

[Brilliant]

It's a classic techology debate. Is it good or is it bad? We won't know until it's too late.

[microgood]

.On the contrary, it will enforce moral codes if a love-child cannot be hidden. The stakes of adultery are raised.

What about trust? I would never think of doing such a test with my wife. If you do not have trust you do not have a relationship.

[sweetliberty]

"On the contrary, it will enforce moral codes if a love-child cannot be hidden. The stakes of adultery are raised."

There is no "love" involved in the production of most of these children, and I think it is highly unlikely that their rising prevalence will do anything to enforce moral codes. The trend I am seeing in court case after court case is just more state control over private lives, and the moral issue is never even addressed. There is a cookie cutter fix to mandate compliance with certain "respoonsibilites," but morality doesn't have a thing to do with it. Just once I'd like to see a judge say "keep your legs together, sweetheart" or "keep it in your pants, buddy."

[RadioAstronomer]

if a love-child

I resemble that. :-)

I was dropped off at an orphanage without even a birth cert. A federal judge had to "create" one. He used his daughter's birthday for my birth date.