Missouri Legalized Fraud

Once again, Missouri judges have ordered a man to pay thousands of dollars in child support for a child he didn't father. The mother in this case has declared to the court that the man is not the father. Yet a state agency says he is. The state wants to throw this man in jail, and the appeals court agreed. This man and others like him caught in a national issue that pits fairness for men against what is considered best for children.

Every weekday, huge television audiences tune in to the spectacle of a dysfunctional adult and the object of their dysfunction are used in a daytime ratings race. When it comes down to it, these children are the ones who will suffer in the long run. Nothing good comes from the display of a mother testing many men to find out who fathered her baby and forever follow the child.

Many men nationwide are trapped into paying child support because they either are declared such administratively, or do not contest paternity. Unlike the Missouri Legislature several states have changed or are considering changes that allows innocent men to defend themselves with DNA evidence. Many various bills in the House and Senate of Missouri would have allowed that here, but these bills were ignored by the legislature.

In most states, a reputed father can be declared without his knowledge, making the very short time to contest useless. In Missouri and Kansas, that period is one year. Child support must be paid until children either turn 18, or graduate college. Judges follow a legal process clearly designed to disregard who the real father is and require anybody but the real father to provide for the children.  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 hurt so many lives for so long.

And it can be a very long-run.  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 husband 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 the men who do the right thing and want to be responsible? 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.