[Verginius Rufus]

Why not have the biological father pay child support?

[muawiyah]

A trip to court would take care of that problem wouldn't it. That's the point I've been making ~ these two owe the child "of the marriage" (which is the term) such action.

They are long overdue.

[metmom]

All it does is reward immoral behavior. Some guy can screw around and get as many women as he wants pregnant but as long as they’re married, he’s free. No responsibility for the children he fathered either financially or morally. It’s just party time and he’s screwed more than the women.

I don’t see why innocent people should have to pay. It’d be like requiring someone who happened to be in the bank when it was robbed to pay the bank back because they happened to be there when it got robbed; and letting the robber go.

It’s robbing an innocent person for something they had no control over.

[Savage Beast]

Yes. The mother should be forced to name the biological father so that he can be made to pay child support--and to reimburse the non-father for child support paid.

Such laws--or, rather, legal clarifications--they are probably already the law under the equal protection clause of the Constitution--would be not only fair and just but would tend to discourage irresponsible behavior, promiscuity, and infidelity.

Under the existing legal injustice concerning this--there is little incentive for a man not to copulate with another man's wife if the chances are good that they will dupe her husband into supporting any child conceived.

[GOPJ]

Why not have the biological father pay child support?

Ding ding ding, we have a winnah.