[tatsinfla]

how about this one...if a man and woman aren’t married but live together and have a child together, both parents are on birth cert. but the state does not recognize nor give parental rights to the father solely because they were not married at the time of birth.

now my question is this. a man and woman are married and a child is born. both the man and woman are on the birth cert. the man is assumed to be the father so he has all parental rights.

all i am asking is in the 2nd case why should it be assumed he is the father? but in the first case when both man and woman acknowledge they are the parents the man is not assumed to be the father by law.

[RogerFGay]

Married fathers do not automatically have all parental rights and typically don't get them (i.e. "all" normal parental rights) following divorce - if that's what you mean. The reason he is the presumed father - in current law - is to assign responsibility for child support payments - making it easier for states to collect federal funding. ... i.e. financial obligation, not rights.

As you can see from the case at hand, they assign financial obligations to non-married men as fast and presumptively as possible as well.