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Originally Posted by Itse
I'm not crazy about that mandatory paternity test idea. Think about the numbers for a second, and the consequences. For example in Finland (pop 5,2 mil) there's about 60 000 children born every year. Let's say that 10% is about the right number for cases where the "assumed" father (the long term romantical partner) is not the actual biological father. With extreme luck about half of those relationships would survive those news. That would still leave create about 3000 "new" broken families every year. Assuming the fertility rates in Canada is something similar, that would mean about 18,000 cases in Canada, per year. Some of those kids would not be firstborns, so you'd have an additional 20,000+ kids every year who would grow up in broken families.
Of course those numbers are really rough guesses, but I think the point is clear.
It's better to have a family with two parents, even if one of them is not your biological parent. Mandatory tests would just bring unnecessary pains for everyone.
Besides, I for one would rather think that my kid _could_ be mine than be confirmed it's not. I would propably not get a test. Biology isn't everything.
(That doesn't mean it's okay to lie to someone just for the money. That's just fraud.)
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I would tend to say that the cheating would bring the unnecessary pain not so much the tests.
I think that there should be better reasons to not have paternity tests than it might reveal there are a lot more skanks in the world than we previously thought.
Sure growing up in broken homes isn't ideal but having that home broken up when you are say 5-10 when the cheating or other cheating is revealed in other ways isn't great either.
With all the new knowledge coming out about ways to treat diseases and often needing biological family members as matches to help with that treatment I don't think it would be a terrible thing to have paternity tests on all kids.
It certainly isn't the most PC thing, as I am sure that many women would be "insulted" that someone questions who the father is but if it can be helpful in any way to provide future care to your child then I say it is worth it.