I know some women who don't. But I also know some who were told by helpful social workers at the public hospital that their dealings with the welfare office would be a lot easier if they just put "unknown" on the birth certificate.
Exactly. Why put the fathers name down? They know they can't get any money from him. If they put unknown, then Uncle Sammy will give them whatever they need compliments of the people who work and pay taxes.
Same principle applies to Je$$e Jack$on and why he won't race pimp in Sudan, where they still have slaves. Sudan won't give him any money, so he does it here instead.
But the best thing about it all is that I save time. Every time I get paid, I don't have to walk through the inner city and hand out money. Theres plenty of people who already do that for me.
I worked with a woman who said the father was unknown, even though the father was her husband (by the time she knew she was pregnant, they were seperated and she had filed for divorce), because he turned out to be a bad guy and she didn't want him to have the legal right to continued contact.