CNN Covers Paternity Fraud

CNN just put out a story Paternity Fraud in Florida. Excerpt:

"There are no perfect answers," says Susan Paikin of the Center for Support of Families in Delaware. "Deadlines (on contesting Paternity) are imposed so that when families are broken -- the legal process is handled quickly."

Susan Palkin is a hypocrite. While she hems and haws about there being "no perfect answers" and that "deadlines are imposed ... (so that) the legal process is handled quickly", she has little to say regarding deadlines on establishing child support in the first place.

A parent can apply for a court order for back child support at any time up to and even after the child has grown up and left the home. Where is the deadline there? Non-existent. So, in the interest of equality, challenging paternity and child support should have no time limits either.

Also, it makes perfect sense to require mandatory paternity testing at birth. Women often do lie about who is the father - in fact 30% of DNA paternity tests, nearly one in three prove that the man involved is not the father of the child in question. Time for women to take responsibility and stop sticking it to the "best" man (i.e. the one with a job and a career) even when he's not the father.