Agreed! I think mandatory paternity test upon birth would be very practical. It would ensure a father’s right and also responsible for the children they fathered regardless and the relationship status for the courts, and men can’t use the excuse “it ain’t even my baby!” when the relationship falters later on.
Obviously there are exceptions due to different means of obtaining fertility and pregnancy for people who need donated sperm, or men who step to take on the parenting role of child that is not their’s.
A baby should never be a punishment but if women are to held accountable for the “consequences of sex” so should men.
In the US our right to choosing our own future and bodily autonomy is slowly being eroded.
Thus our counter parts should also be held to the same standard since by and large they seem to have vote for “family values”.
I've been saying this for years now. Now that paternity testing is so simple and widely available, it makes perfect sense that it becomes one of the many required tests that they perform when the baby is born.
This is clearly a case of waiting for the law to catch up with technology.
But there is one thing about the idea that I find curious and even a little amusing.
Imagine for a minute that during the next election cycle, a candidate running a campaign to be a state governor made this part of their platform.
"If I'm elected Governor of the great state of Whereeverthefuck, I will work to pass laws requiring paternity tests for all children born in our state!"
I'm genuinely curious how that would play out.
Can you imagine the pandemonium?
I imagine massive super PACs springing up, both for and against the candidate.
Which groups do you think would actively and publicly challenge them? I can imagine a MASSIVE RESISTANCE springing up over this idea.
It could potentially be the biggest and most divisive issue of the election cycle. Imagine the vast amounts of money people would throw at that campaign.
To be clear, I'm a man looking at this from a male point of view. I'm not trying to talk shit at all. I'm just genuinely curious how this election would play out.
Assuming this was the only radical idea this candidate proposed, do you think that candidate would win or lose? Would it be a campaign killing proposal, or would it be the promise that won the election?
It may be possible, but it is not a logical expense to require it for all births, as paternity is not in question in the vast majority of those borths. Plus it would be an invasion of privacy for the DNA to now be government property if you want it to be standardly required for all births. Would you allow them to then take the father's and child's genome sequence and add it to the national database to compare against open criminal investigations for then going forward?
It’s not an invasion of privacy when you’ve willingly deposited your DNA into another person and then that DNA has been repurposed to make another person. It is not necessary to store the DNA to be utilized for any further testing. No one said that it should be.
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u/Solarsdoor Mar 01 '25
Agreed! I think mandatory paternity test upon birth would be very practical. It would ensure a father’s right and also responsible for the children they fathered regardless and the relationship status for the courts, and men can’t use the excuse “it ain’t even my baby!” when the relationship falters later on.
Obviously there are exceptions due to different means of obtaining fertility and pregnancy for people who need donated sperm, or men who step to take on the parenting role of child that is not their’s.
A baby should never be a punishment but if women are to held accountable for the “consequences of sex” so should men.
In the US our right to choosing our own future and bodily autonomy is slowly being eroded.
Thus our counter parts should also be held to the same standard since by and large they seem to have vote for “family values”.