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.
Article 340 in the French Civil Code of 1804 established paternity choice for men, but that principle of French Revolution ideals was subsequently effaced. … Read the post paternity choice: an aborted principle of the French Revolution
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