Reply #76: it's perfectly just when the man agreed to it when he entered the contract [View All]

[TorchTheWitch]

Marriage is a contract in which there is the obligation that both the husband AND THE WIFE accept as their own any children born "of the marriage" which means born to them during the time they are married. When a man marries he is accepting the conditions of that contract including this one. Should he not want to accept those conditions, then he shouldn't have entered into the marriage contract.

Fatherhood is both legally and morally a state of being, not whether or not it was your sperm that contributed to the life of a child. When a man accepts that he has fathered a child and acts as said father's child both legally and morally he IS that child's father whether or not he discovers at some time in the future that the child is not biologically his. As it should be.

It's absolutely repugnant to me that any man who believed he was the father of a child and acted as said father's child could turn away and no longer accept that child as theirs just because they find out someone else's sperm contributed to the creation of said child. It's obvious that any man who could do such a thing doesn't love the child for themself and ONLY cares that it was his sperm that contributed to said child's creation... that their love and care is solely contingent on whose sperm contributed to the creation of the child. Pity any child for having such an asshole as a father.