RVonse
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- that people in the US are living in the matrx
http://wgno.com/2016/07/28/colorado-man-forced-to-pay-child-support-despite-dna-test-results/
I am hoping someone here can help me understand how a legal system which promotes this will be a good thing for society in general. Why would any guy get married if the contract between a man and a woman means nothing for the woman must do but everything for what the man will pay later? If we don't recognize marriage as meaning anything for the guy, would we not expect in the future for pretty much every male to just impregnate as many females as possible and forget about marriage? According to most studies, over 4% of the married fathers do not know they are not the biological father of their children! How soon do we wait until most of the fathers do not know whether they are the biological father's of their own offspring?
I would not expect most people to fix this type of behavior by going back to biblical norms where a woman would be stoned for such conduct. But without some sort of legal or social norms to follow (as is the case we see today), I don't see how you can expect anything except utter chaos to end up ensuing in society.
And before someone says "what would you do to correct this?", my answer is plenty of ways to correct proper conduct from females not resorting to stoning them to death. For one thing, if it were to be found that either party of marriage was guilty of infidelity, they could automatically forfeit custody rights in a domestic lawsuit. Or I could think of a lot of other sanctions to prevent bad behavior.
But doing nothing is a recipe for a broken society IMO.
I am hoping someone here can help me understand how a legal system which promotes this will be a good thing for society in general. Why would any guy get married if the contract between a man and a woman means nothing for the woman must do but everything for what the man will pay later? If we don't recognize marriage as meaning anything for the guy, would we not expect in the future for pretty much every male to just impregnate as many females as possible and forget about marriage? According to most studies, over 4% of the married fathers do not know they are not the biological father of their children! How soon do we wait until most of the fathers do not know whether they are the biological father's of their own offspring?
I would not expect most people to fix this type of behavior by going back to biblical norms where a woman would be stoned for such conduct. But without some sort of legal or social norms to follow (as is the case we see today), I don't see how you can expect anything except utter chaos to end up ensuing in society.
And before someone says "what would you do to correct this?", my answer is plenty of ways to correct proper conduct from females not resorting to stoning them to death. For one thing, if it were to be found that either party of marriage was guilty of infidelity, they could automatically forfeit custody rights in a domestic lawsuit. Or I could think of a lot of other sanctions to prevent bad behavior.
But doing nothing is a recipe for a broken society IMO.