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

Only becasue it already has.

The father is the mother's husband. That has been the law for centuries and still is and should be.

That society has fallen apart (all sorts of unwed mothers) and refusal to take responsibility on the part of men (impregnating women who are not their wives or whom they do not marry) would cause the problem.

If you are married to a woman, her children are yours no matter if the biological progenitor is another man.

But we no longer believe in marriage or responsibilty for male heads of houselds.

The father is the mother's husband. That has been the law for centuries and still is and should be.

Which explains why some men only date married women. Your suggestion relieves all gigolos of responsibility.

"The father is the mother's husband. That has been the law for centuries and still is and should be. "

OK, but then was this fair?

I married a girl, she was PG, child is born, I'm sent to Nam, Real father moves in right after I've gone, I send all the $ back to the world, I come home, "Not" in a body-bag to find a man in bed with my wife(2:30 AM, no one knew I was coming back right then)) We divorce, they Marry and I had to pay child support to the Real father to raise his own kid. Court had the facts(were not in dispute) but didn't care.

So what your saying is, It doesn't matter, the fault or responsibility for the child fell on me, even though they set this up to happen this way. But the one part I did manage to mess up, I didn't come back in a body-bag. Made it all a bit more messy for them and no $20,000 lump payout.

Any Woman that does this to a man without his knowledge doesn't deserve his trust nor his support in life.

But I would guess I'm a bit biased. And have always wondered how they explained that other last name on the Birth Cert from a Naval Hospital, on a Marine Corps base.