Wales Man Refunded Child Support After Proving He Wasn't the Father

	posted by Scott on Thursday October 18, @04:49PM from the reproductive-rights dept.
	In some very encouraging news, a man from Wales (UK) will receive a check for 30k pounds, plus interest, after paying child support for seven years for a child that he never fathered. He discovered this fact after taking a DNA paternity test. Gerard Bradbury decided to take the test as the CS payments began to become "crippling" to him. Bradbury said, "I don't begrudge the child a penny but I hate being taken for a fool. The last few years have been a nightmare. But now at last I can get on with my life." This was noted as the second time in Britain that a man was able to stop paying child support when backed by a DNA test. You can read the BBC story at this link.

	Source: BBC Title: CSA pays back 'wrong' dad Author: Unknown Date: October 17, 2001

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paternity fraud, duped dads by chuck on Friday October 19, @12:57AM EST (#1) (User #4 Info) Are there methods to measure social changes and whether the rates of change are shifting? This would be the place to post those results. The current topic is one example of the changes we would want to track. It is technically called "paternity fraud," but the media tend to call it "duped dads." The media of course go for the unusual, so column-inches are not ultimately a good indicator. There have to be ways to track change as it moves from theunusual to the routine. In this instance it might be legal settlements -- in the defrauded party's favor. Of course this is only one of several topics under reproductive rights for men. They should all be tracked so we know what's moving and how fast. Needless to say, this tracking process will help us know where, and on whom, to put the pressure.

Re:paternity fraud, duped dads by c4m on Friday October 19, @11:28PM EST (#2) (User #7 Info) > Are there methods to measure social changes > and whether the rates of change are shifting? [...] Look here. Thanks, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. Reproductive Rights Chairman National Center for Men www.choiceformen.com Protect Planned Fatherhood

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