Men’s lack of paternity certainty is a fundamental sex inequality. Modern DNA testing, if applied systematically, could provide gender equality in knowledge of biological offspring. The social construction of legal paternity has defied reason, common sense, and justice. That indicates men’s subordinate social and political position with respect to vital aspects of ordinary life.
Despite the importance of biological paternity, criminal law and elite moralizing has attempted to keep men in ignorance about their biological paternity. … Read the post men in elite discussion of paternity testing
Chaplin’s affair with Joan Berry generated for Chaplin White Slave Traffic Act charges and legal paternity of Berry’s child contrary to paternity fact. … Read the post Charlie Chaplin persecuted for sex with Joan Berry
William J. Brennan noted that in the field of contested paternity “social pressures create a conspiracy of silence or, worse, induce deliberate falsity.” … Read the post legal suppression of paternity knowledge
Legal preference for paternity fiction over paternity fact has existed in paternity law from before the seventeenth century through to the present day. … Read the post paternity within marriage: long history of legal fiction
The badly functioning child support systems relies on childish reasoning, misrepresentations of biological paternity, and devaluation of men’s choices. … Read the post financial child support: judging misrepresentation and reliance
Men suffer from lack of good paternity knowledge. Paternity establishment practices unjustly keep men ignorant about true biological paternity. … Read the post paternity establishment: undue influence, misrepresentation & mis-service
A Dogon paternity, Strassmann et al (2012), provides good insight into false biological-paternity belief within broader systems of beliefs. … Read the post Dogon paternity study: high-tech genetics, shallow anthropology
Turner v. Rogers and child-support enforcement proceedings don’t recognize differences between having sex and fathering a child. … Read the post differences between having sex and fathering a child
Biological paternity is socially valued only as a means for making a man pay child support when a child-support payer cannot otherwise be established. … Read the post the paternity information economy
False paternity or extra-pair paternity, defined as a man falsely believing himself to be the biological father of a child, covers about 5% of children in high-income Western countries. … Read the post social fundamentals: paternity uncertanty