[Phantom Lord]

The point which you have avoided is that the adults are adults (responsible)

Clearly, in the matter being discussed the female adult is not responsible in more ways than one. It is obvious that the child has a biological parent. If she wants to receive child support she should track that man down and get it from him. She should not be lying to the man she claims to be the father and she should not be lying to the courts about who the father is so as to collect child support from the lied to man.

There was a 15 year old kid in Mass. last year whose girlfriend became pregnant. Thinking he was the father he took full responsibility, got a job and upon birth started paying child support. Shortly after that he questioned the mother about who the father was after he heard talk of him not being the father. She said he was and he demaned a paternatiy test. It showed he was NOT the father.

He then sued her in court to remove his child support responsibility. The court ruled that he MUST continue to pay child support AND PAY FOR THE KIDS COLLEGE EDUCATION!

[kaylar]

In Bernard Goldberg's Bias , he mentions in some detail some truly horrific paternity fraud cases : In these cases, the accused father never even got the court papers telling them they were being sued for CS. In one case , the man's GF threw a tantrum and HID the court papers! In another, the papers were sent to a previous address, and were not forwarded. The men learned they'd been sued when the court began garnisheeing wages. Then they insisted on a paternity test , they were completely excluded-but because they'd 'failed to show', they'd been found guilty, and the earlier judgement was not vacated.