You’re saying every woman who gives birth should automatically be treated like a potential liar. Every kid starts life under a cloud of suspicion.
This is one way to look at it but not the only. I imagine people are sometimes incorrect about parentage without any intentional deception or malice. There are poly and swinger folk who are also drinkers out there not remembering some exciting weekends. You could go your whole life making medical, dietary or spiritual decisions based on a false family medical history.
But that’s not an argument for making testing default. Men in such relationships can accept the possibility that the kid isn’t theirs. Or request testing if it’s important to them. This is the parents responsibility and your example is an outlier.
My point was that if the test is mandatory, or even an opt-out rather than opt-in, it creates a culture where the underlying thought is that women on average can’t be trusted to name the biological father.
This is one way to look at it but not the only. I imagine people are sometimes incorrect about parentage without any intentional deception or malice. There are poly and swinger folk who are also drinkers out there not remembering some exciting weekends. You could go your whole life making medical, dietary or spiritual decisions based on a false family medical history.
But that’s not an argument for making testing default. Men in such relationships can accept the possibility that the kid isn’t theirs. Or request testing if it’s important to them. This is the parents responsibility and your example is an outlier.
My point was that if the test is mandatory, or even an opt-out rather than opt-in, it creates a culture where the underlying thought is that women on average can’t be trusted to name the biological father.