What if there was a law that says every baby being born must undergo DNA paternity testing?

Question

I think it would solve a lot of issues surrounding paternity. It will work out for everyone. The presumed father has the right to know for sure if the baby is his. When a man finds out the baby is not his, he has the right to decide whether or not he wants to raise and support someone else's child. The child has a right to know who his father is. The faithful woman deserves a chance to prove that she's not promiscious. The promiscious woman needs to get the child's real father, not just any man, to be there for the child. I think that it's selfish that the woman who slept with John Edwards is refusing to consent to a paternity test. She said she doesn't want her privacy invaded. I think if this was a law, Jerry Springer would be out of work.

Answer 1

Well for one, there is no where near enough reliable DNA testing facilities to perform all these tests.

Answer 2

Wouldnt worry me - im not one of these women who sleep around and have 5 kids to 5 different fathers. You raise a good point, i would make alot of sense. I probably sound like im betraying all females here, but i think it sucks that a girl can just say 'hey, your the father, pay up' when the fella doesnt even know for sure if it is his child.  

Answer 3

i think that is a great idead, but it also will cost alot of money though, especially lab work, i agree that it'll make it much easier but then again a hastle cause think about it how many babies are born each day?? and how many DNA test they have to do daily? that's ALOT

Answer 4

I agree that paternity testing should be mandatory at birth.  It would save a lot of men a lot of headaches.

Answer 5

yah..i agree..their should be a law of dna paternity testing..

Answer 6

For the majority of women who are pregnant, the paternity of their children is not in doubt, the baby is their husband's.

However, there are always those females whose morals are in question, for those, perhaps paternity tests should be mandatory.

Answer 7

Then my neighbor's 16 year old son would be a new daddy and my husband would leave me.

Answer 8

1. Most mothers know who the father of their baby is.

2. Who would fund it?

3. If Edwards wanted a paternity test and would pay for it, then she would have to allow it. As it is, he's not pressing it, and it's not anyone else's business.

Answer 9

I don't know about mandatory testing--I think the government should be involved in our personal lives as little as possible.

But you would be surprised at how often the presumed father isn't actually the biological father.  A large-scale study was done in the UK a few years back (I'll see if I can find a link), and they were startled to find that as many as 10% of  men who were raising children they believed to be theirs were in fact not the biological fathers.  As I recall, the sample they studied was mostly comprised of married couples.  So these husbands were raising children who were fathered by men who had cuckolded them, and they didn't know anything about it.  Truly shocking.