Quote From: vixiexFathers are more than a checkbook. I don't think he should have to pay if he isn't the biological father - especially since he's been lied to this whole time. HOWEVER, if he's raised this child and is the Dad that the child knows - I would assume there is love between the two of them. That relationship should continue.
Biology has less to do with parenthood than love, trust, teaching and caring that comes from that relationship. "Anyone can be a father - but it takes someone special to be a Dad"
Just my 2 cents.
I am a woman and but I have to defend that father in some areas. First, I will say that the only blame I would place on him is how he chose to tell the child. After all, she is a child, but I can understand that he allowed the bitterness toward his ex to get the better of him and consequently, he never thought about the child's feelings and the devastation it would have on her.
The ex wife was very deceitful. She would never expect her husband to say, "I'm happy we are pregnant, but by the way is it mine"? I believe that because the child has a bond with this man as her father, he should still be allowed to have that relationship if and when the child feels comfortable, but he should not be bound by any law to continue paying when DNA proved that this was not his child, he was deceived and he did not formally agree to being the child's father even he found out that she was not his. The woman should be made to reimburse him every penny for her deception. It's no better than someone cheating another person out of their property. If the father knew this child was not his and still agreed to participate in this child's life as if she was his own, then he is totally obligated to continue with child support etc.
Gloria Allred is just like a BULL DOG. She should shut up. She wants to blame this man, what about the biological father. No one though about the emotional stress it might have had on this man when he found out that this child he believed was his turned out to be someone else's, and that his wife was cheating on him. That's why he made such a irrational decision to tell the child. That's the only thing I disagree with him in his behavior. Why isn't the biological father contacted to take financial responsibility for his daughter, or maybe the woman is not certain who the daddy really is? Suppose later there is a rear condition and the biological father is the only person who could help?
It's women like those why descent women like me are not able to find great men.