F&F: National Putative Father Registry: A Bad Idea Promoted by Adoption Lawyers

Article here. Excerpt:

'For readers who haven’t seen pieces I’ve written on these scandalous inventions, putative father registries are entities designed to remove fathers from the process of adopting children. They’re located in the bureaucracy of states, usually in the Department of Health, perhaps in the Bureau of Vital records. A registry is created by state law that requires every unmarried man who believes he may have fathered a child to file a form with the registry laying claim to any such child. If he does that and and a child was in fact conceived and the mother carries it to term and places the child for adoption, the father is entitled to notice of the adoption and an opportunity to assert his parental rights. Failure to file the form means the court is free to finalize the adoption without telling him.

So, if you’re single man and you have sex with a woman, you need to file the requisite form with the state. On it you’ll identify yourself and the woman and, depending on the state, the approximate birth date of the child.'