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.
The badly functioning child support systems relies on childish reasoning, misrepresentations of biological paternity, and devaluation of men’s choices. … Read the post child support: judging misrepresentation & reliance in Shondel
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