Again, Missouri Judges have declared that a man who is not a childs father must pay child support anyway. This time even the child’s mother agrees the man is not the father. Yet a state agency says he is. An appeals court sustained the states desire to lock this man in jail. This man and others like him are being used in a scheme that declares that it’s best for a child to force anybody to pay instead of the real father.

On any given day millions of people watch sensation television where a dysfunctional woman and the pawns of their dysfunction are used to increase ratings. When it comes down to it, these children are the ones who will suffer in the long run. Nothing beneficial can come out of the display of a mother testing 5 or more men to determine who fathered her baby, this is something that will forever follow the child.

Many men are trapped into paying child support because they either fail to contest paternity or are declared by the state administrativly. Unlike the Missouri Legislature several states have recently changed (or are considering changes) that allow men to introduce DNA evidence and bring truth back to the system. Various bills in the Missouri Senate and House would have allow that here, but these bills never got out of committee.

In most states a very short time to contest is further compounded with the ability to declare paternity administratively. In Missouri, Kansas, and many other states the period is one year. Child support usually must be paid until children turn at least 18. Judges typically follow a clear legal process designed to financially provide for children regardless of who the real father is.  This is tantamount to state sponsored paternity fraud.

If there is a requirement of paternity testing before any requirement of child support a great deal of expense, pain, and family disruption can be avoided.This also gives some women the chance to take responsibility for their actions. No longer will lies be able to hurt so many lives in the long run.

And the long run is very long indeed.  In one of these cases a Missouri Court found “…is now held to be the father of (the child) for all purposes and all time,” , “despite both mother and father’s statements to the contrary and without any determination of that relationship by a court of law.”

It is unfair that a man has to pay for a child that is not his, regardless of true paternity a boyfriend is still required by law to support the children even if he did not father them.  It is obvious that in Missouri paternity fraud is rampant.

Often we hear about dead beat dads and womens rights.But what about responsible men who want to do the right thing? Where are the rights for these men? Along with mandatory paternity testing their should be a mandatory law stating that the woman should pay back the child support received over how ever long period the time due to the fact that the child/children are not his.