Senator Sheila Kuehl's Testimony on Paternity Justice Act

warble writes "What follows is the exact quote of Senator Kuehl's testimony as given in the Senate on the Paternity Justice Act. In transcribing this from a video, every effort has been made to preserve the actual statements made by her. They are rather incredible to say the least! NCFM, LA is interested in your objective comments and suggestions of how this can be used.
" See the Read More section below for the transcript of the speech.warble continues, "Senator Kuehl’s Testimony on AB2240 August 6, 2002:

"I think that paternity law has been constructed not so that it's fair to the parents, but rather that it most likely guarantees that a child will have a designated father. That doesn’t sound fair to people. Because biology, has been the thing that most men have pointed to as saying, 'okay I did this now I’ll take responsibility for the child.'

But the law, rather, on its own made some decisions about the security of children in saying for instance; where there is a marriage we will declare that the husband of the mother is the father of the child. We don’t care whether he was nor not. We don’t want to hear about that. We will just declare it.

And there have been other instances where the law has made the decision, this will be the father, and that has not been necessarily (she smiles at the default paternity fraud victims in the audience) fair, as we heard from many of your witnesses (speaking to Assemblyman Wright).

But I’m disturbed by the breadth of the ability to unravel that. Where, we’re not saying, rather than you sir, this gentleman is the appropriate father for this child

…But for me this bill goes way too far in unraveling what 'may be' an unfair situation. Such that there would be many more children who would not legally have fathers, and I do not think that would be in the best interest of society as a whole."

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