Pardon me, but what in our doctrine, in our canon law or on God's earth would lead you or anyone else to believe that a years-long Catholic marriage that produces a child should get an "easy" annulment and was not "valid from the beginning?"
To put it another way, what church is it that you belong to that would so easily make innocent children bastards?
Those are rhetorical questions BTW. I know my catechism well enough to not be interested in your answer.
Personal experience — one of my daughters.
Please don’t be angry. These are the kinds of questions that many non-Catholic people have about the Church. A lack of understanding leads to confusion and strife.
I asked my question out of a sense of curiosity and a genuine desire to understand how the Catholic Church would manage such a thing.
As the situation stands, the woman and the child would be without support. How does it benefit the child to prevent the mother from finding another husband and gaining support? Or is that something that the Church considers secondary and unimportant?
Well,in today’s world, being a bastard is no problem.
After all, Americans elected one as President in 2008 and then re-elected him again in 2012.
Annulment does not make a child illegitimate.