"...the judge referred to a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision that said if someone acts as a parent and provides support for a child during a marriage, they are obliged to continue that financial support after separation or divorce -- even if the child is not biologically theirs."

As in the UK and in much of the United States, paternity fraud is the law of the land.  By failing to set any form of legal consequences for paternity fraud, courts and the law encourage it asthis article makes clear (National Post, 1/7/09).

And let's be clear on what paternity fraud does.  It places in the hands of the mother the father's parental rights and allows her to make the decision about whether he will support- and play the role of father to- the children.  The legal preference for paternity fraud tells women that it is OK to defraud men.  So when a woman becomes pregnant the law says loudly and clearly that it is her free choice whether or not to tell him that the child is not his, or that she is not sure.

If she were to tell him the truth, then he could make his own free, informed decision about whether he wanted to take up the obligations of parenthood or not.  If he chose to do so, as many men do even though they're not the father, then he should be saddled with parental duties and receive parental rights.  But it should be his decision, not hers.

To those who complain that, if a woman has had sex with two or more men near the time of conception, she can't know who the father is, the answer is obvious - she can tell each of them that he may be the father.  That way they can sort out via DNA testing who the father is.  If she has no idea of who the father is, she can tell the putative father that and he can have testing done to find out the truth.                                                                  

But, as the quotation above amply demonstrates, to secure a man's legal obligation of support, all a woman must do is lie to him and maintain the lie for a short period of time.  Again, his decision is not his, it's hers.

Nowhere else in law do we place the rights and duties of one free adult in the hands of another person.  There is no excuse for paternity fraud.  None.

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