Hospitals ask: Who’s the daddy?

DNA guy, very well put!

While it is within the rights of a man to ask for a DNA test, I think that a streamlined process should be available to unmarried fathers who know a baby is theirs. If they all had to get a DNA test to prove it, we would probably have less men acknowledging paternity: DNA testing is expensive – runs about $400 to $2,000. Poor couples aren’t likely to be able to afford it on their own – does that mean the state should pay for a DNA test for each and every child born out of wedlock?
Bottom line – men do not have to sign the acknowledgment, and even if they do sign it, they have 60 days to challenge it if they get information that the child is not theirs. By offering a streamlined process to establish paternity, the state saves lots of money and time, and more children get to have two parents on their birth certificate.

“On the flip side, there are tons of people in committed relationships, just not married who would never consider cheating. It would be offensive to them to have a DNA test pushed on them. ”

With Paternity fraud approaching 33% in the US it is not uncommon for even married men to find out thier wives cheated. DNA testing should be as mandatory in EVERY birth in this country. There are lab tests that are done at birth and this should be one of them. The ONLY reason that there has not been a bigger push is because no one wants to embarass poor mom when the DNA test comes back and the man who is holding the baby is told he is NOT the father.

Then she got some “splainin” to do. But hey waht the hell its ok to make a poor man pay support for a scandalous woman as long as shes not held accountable right? Thats why women dont want it. Because if they are found out thier child support meal ticket goes by by and they have to be accountable.

So, it seems the state wants men to sign on the dotted line with little or no recourse (60 whole days). The state certainly doesnt encourage men to verify any hunches they might have (the state is becoming complicit in these frauds by discouraging men from getting proof of paternity(,

The Women often don’t want child sup[port from the daddy, but from the richest of the men they have been lying to (or sleeping with). The state wants women to get child support notfoprm the daddy, but from the richest man she has been lying to,

Let’s be clear for a moment about the logistics of DNA paternity testing. The best possible price on the market today for the test is $79, you can collect your own mouth swabs and you get results in 2 days or less. You can pay more and get results in under 24 hours. These prices exist from multiple labs and the hospitals would surely negotiate a better price. What the hospital charges is a whole different issue but the idea that the state will be burdened by the additional cost is ludicrous. Imagine the cost savings to the state on court proceedings and all that entails. Further, it is highly probable that the state or hospital will find a way to bill the alleged father and he may be more than willing to pay for this voluntary test if he is made aware of the facts about the small upfront costs of a paternity test compared to the long term costs of paying for another man’s child/responsibility for the next 20+ years. Once again, if the hospital staff is trained and encouraged to promote signing paper for the child, don’t they have a responsibility to promote and suggest a paternity test?

I find this leading statement interesting: “…getting unmarried fathers to voluntarily admit paternity of their newborn children.”

I wonder if the reporter CHOSE not to say how many mothers refused (or were unable) to say who the father was? 25% of the parents did not fill out the voluntary paternity form, but I suspect that the majority of those were not cases where a father refused to sign the form, but where the mother would not;/could not divulge the father’s name. The tone of the opening paragraph makes it sounds like fathers are owning up to the truth, where I suspect that fathers haven’t been the problem in the first place.

Why, Erica, would DNA testing be offensive?

Because since it began at least 10% of all all tested births to married women the child was not genitally related to her husband.

Women’s apprehensions should not stand in the way of the truth. The child has a right to know who his father is. Many men would like to know about their children but are never told, or some other man is named.

As for the Va. situation. They simply want the name of a man they can bill for child support. If they cared if the man had any relationship to the child they would impose DNA testing. They don’t care, they just want a name.

Florida tried to find the fathers by having the girls post advertisements so that potential fathers could find their children. The woman’s movement shot that down quickly.

Women have a time honored tradition of playing fast and loose with who daddy it for their benefit. When we have standard DNA testing of ALL childern well will finally act in the best interests of the child, not mommy dearest.