Toni
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The reason that there is law established naming the husband of a woman who gives birth as the legal father of the resulting child is that there have always been children who are the result of sexual contact between the mother and someone not her husband. The ability to genetically determine paternity is a recent development. So is the ability to conceive a child through artificial insemination, iVF, and so on.What has happened to the guy in the OP of this thread is cruel too. I do not agree with it at all, but this does appears to be an acceptable standard of conduct for women now days and condoned by our legal system. So if you agree with a non biological person raising and paying for a child as in the OP, you really should have no problem with what Jolly has suggested.Everything sounds 'doable' until you consider that you are talking about raising human beings or even any living being with any sense of self awareness. What Jolly described would be a cruel and inadequate way of raising a litter of puppies, much less an entire society of people.
As has been pointed out multiple times in this thread, the legal father is quite happy to continue as the child's father. What is cruel is if the adults decided they should disrupt the relationship between child and legal father.