Tell-all father's rights registry needs more exposure

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2008-10-01 15:13

From this article:

'Fathers-to-be are not exactly queuing up to get on Virginia's Putative Father Registry. One year after its creation, only 64 men have signed up.

The registry was created so that unmarried men can preserve their legal rights in case they father a child out of wedlock. The response is just as underwhelming in the other 35 states with similar registries.

The only certain way to prevent that from happening is to register every sex act or to abstain. Most men will probably reject both options. But the growing number of registries around the country are a recognition that the old adoption laws were flawed, too.

For instance, mothers can now avoid the humiliation of having their names published in newspaper legal notices, previously required before the child of an unknown or absent father could be placed with adoptive parents. Children can more quickly be sent to stable homes, and adoptive parents have more protections against lawsuits years after the fact.

Putative father registries are here to stay, and Congress is considering a bill that would create a national version, ensuring notification even when one parent moves out of state.'

Like0 Dislike0

Comments

I really don't see any positive side when the government invades our sex lives. Is this a precurser for registry of all single men? Mandatory documentation of sexual encounters? Why would this be necessary if men received equal rights in the family court systems? Is this to protect mens' rights or shackle them further than they already are? Of course it is a gotcha! You wait and see. Foster homes are paid. Child support will be sought. Not every child that gets born is placed in a warm and fuzzy home. There are a lot that are raised in foster homes. If this is like any other program that the government has implemented for the welfare recovery act it starts out slow and then gains momentum. Beware.

David A. DeLong

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by David A. DeLong on Wed, 2008-10-01 15:31

Well, it is already the case that a man cannot successfully defend himself against an accusation of rape unless he has a written "pre-screw" consent form or a video of the actual sexual encounter that documents the female's consent.

What I especially like are the "marital rape" laws.

Any expression of masculinity is being criminalized now.

Except for dying in war.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by Roy on Wed, 2008-10-01 16:02

This is scary. Upon reading the first few sentences of the article, it seems like a good thing, but then you realize that women don't have to deal with this kind of crap, and men shouldn't have to either. Why is that we need to file a pile of paperwork just to be able to see lives that we created? Not to mention that said paperwork is an invasion of privacy. It's a lose-lose here. Why don't they just criminalize violating court visitation orders? I guess they couldn't do that cause that would involve punishing a woman for breaking the law, something that the justice system has proven it's incapable of.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2008-10-02 01:56