[goldstategop]

If you have relations and acknowledge a kid as yours, you’re on the hook.

Moral of the tale being don’t sleep around and if a woman gets pregnant, get a DNA test before signing any papers.

‘Nuff said.

[fr_freak]

Moral of the tale being don’t sleep around and if a woman gets pregnant, get a DNA test before signing any papers.

You're above statement is a darn good guideline for life, but that it NOT the moral of this story. The moral of this story is that government should not be allowed to grow into some all powerful leviathan that can extort some guy out of $30,000 or more just because it feels like it, even when everyone involved knows that the rationale is false, including the freaking judge. The proper response to learning of this abuse of power is outrage, followed by remedial action, NOT trying to figure out the best way to acquiesce to the abuse.

[jcon40]

No, they separated then after several months she went and got artuficially inseminated, had twins with someone elses sperm.

These were not his biological kids

[Age of Reason]

If you have relations and acknowledge a kid as yours, you’re on the hook.

That is unnatural and serves to undermine the institution of marriage.

Until recently genetic testing didn't exist.

Society solved the problem of child support by insisting a man can only be responsible for the children of the woman he is married to.

Therefore, any woman who has a baby as a result of having sex out of wedlock would be the sole supporter of the child (not some man she claims is the father and not the state, either).

Sounds cruel, but it is the lesser evil.

She couldn't just run around saying this guy or that was the father and have the state go after the guy.

And so for a woman to make a baby and to have sex, she'd better first find a husband to do it with.

And the man, taking the woman to wife, is then legally obligated to support any baby his wife produces unless he could produce evidence she cheated on him, in which case he should be allowed to divorce her.

[Chainsawj]

All this trouble because he didn’t buy a $1 condom.

USE A CONDOM and you ARE NOT the FATHER!!!!