A woman can choose to have a kid, but the man has no choice in whether to acknowledge the kid she decides to have. Paternity judgments are for the protection of children, but are abortion rights are for the protection of the mother. Fathers get to write checks. Women get protected for everything, children get protected if they manage birth, and men are protected if they are gay, I suppose.
That would make the hierarchy:
1. women
2. children
3. dogs
4. men
In California, they're kicking it up a notch further. Matt Welch writes in Reason Magazine about how the state is putting the burden of paternity proof on the father. A man can be ordered to pay thousands without the state offering any shred of evidence.
What Pierce didn’t realize, and what nearly 10 million American men have discovered to their chagrin since the welfare reform legislation of 1996, is that when the government accuses you of fathering a child, no matter how flimsy the evidence, you are one month away from having your life wrecked. Federal law gives a man just 30 days to file a written challenge; if he doesn’t, he is presumed guilty. And once that steamroller of justice starts rolling, dozens of statutory lubricants help make it extremely difficult, and prohibitively expensive, to stop -- even, in most cases, if there’s conclusive DNA proof that the man is not the child’s father.
Welch goes on to talk about how California doesn't even have to prove a summons was delivered. Therefore, 30 days can come and go before a man even knows he was accused. Men who are innocent still have to pay thousands of dollars in legal fees which they will never recoup. No penalty is written into the law to punish women for naming the wrong men.
Former California Legislator Rod Wright is trying to reform the system, but dopey feminist Legislator, Sheila Kuehl is having none of it.
"What makes a father?" California state Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) said in an August 2002 interview with the Los Angeles Times, explaining why she was voting against Rod Wright’s latest reform bill. "This bill says the donation of genetic material makes a father. I don’t agree."
There was a time when paternity was the burden of the state. Now Kuehl is saying that not even DNA can protect men as far as she is concerned. I can’t think of a better example of how feminist policies result in a war between men and women.
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