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I'm not trying to gloss over the emotional damage done to children and fathers in these cases. The financial side gets a good deal of attention because that is the only damage that can be reasonably corrected. The emotional scars are permanant. I can't even begin to imagine how devastating this is on someone. The bond established between a father and a child has to be protected. I couldn't possibly consider walking away from my kid, DNA or not. Everyone loses in paternity fraud except for one person...the woman who commits it. The financial part of this is like pouring salt into an open wound.

The court system seems to saying to all of us, “Its OK to lie about who the father of a child really is, as long as someone is paying, there will be no accountability”. What if we applied this same reasoning regarding financial life support to life support for the child still in the womb? I can hear the NOW and NARAL crowd screaming already!