| Film Details | 22 - Paternity Fraud - 18m 12s |
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| Notes | |
| Age Rating | 15 (strong footage/language, possibly including violence and sexual imagery) |
| Synopsis | On the enormous prevalence of paternity fraud and society’s indifference to it because the principal victims are male. • Paternity fraud and family-breakdown • A man’s right to know • Female promiscuity |
| Interviewees | Simon, Psychologist and Writer. Oliver Curry, Evolutionary Psychologist at the London School of Economics and contributing author to Demos, the independent think tank and research institute. Daniel Monk, Law Lecturer at Birkbeck University, London, and a specialist in Family law. Dr Denise Syndercombe-Court, Senior Scientist, St Barts Hospital, London. All interviews recorded in 2004 |
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My husband has an 18 year old daughter, who when we first got together was 12 and he said he didnt think she was his. This girls mother has been manipulating my husband for years. It breaks my heart that he is so reluctant to end this. All he has to do is have a paternity test. But he has waited so long and has invested time in this girl. He never signed her birth certificate, so he was never obligated financially, although he did pay her over the years, because the mother would yell and scream on the phone.
I have given my husband a son, who looks exactly like him. I do not want my son to call this girl his sister, because that just adds to the lie. I think the daughter knows that my husband is not her biological father. Her mother had a child with another man, who the daughter lives with. The mother is currently with yet another man who considers, the girl, to be his daughter, also. My husband’s brother (adopted brother), who the daughter looks alot alike, sees alot of the daughter also. She does not lack father figure’s, her mother has made sure of that. The mother and daughter have tried for years to break our relationship up, all the other men, except the man the mother is with have no woman in the picture. It is an on going struggle, and amazing that this can continue. I would like to know if I have any legal rights? for my sons sake. I would like to know if I can get a copy of her birth certificate. Can I get a court order for a dna test?
I realize my husband will always have a relationship with the girl, but everyone needs to be made aware of the truth. I am all about truth.
Hi MamaDrama,
You are in the same situation as my sons father we were together but unlike you the mother has destroyed our relationship!
My husband had a son when we first met after I got pregnant it brought back all his memories and he knew the boy was not his. So he did a piece of mind DNA test and he told the mother she then told her son who was only 8!!! What kind of parents does that?
He then contacted the CSA who said he needed to do a court legal test, he asked the mother who agreed then said he would only visit his own doctor for dna testing, she then backed out.
It went to court and DNA testing was ordered three times and each time she made a new excuse first he was afraid of the doctors secondly she wouldn’t do it then finally he refused. The magistrates court then ruled in her favour that he was the father as he could not remember what date he married the mother!!! This was so Grossly unfair that we sought legal advise. A barrister stated that the magistrates court were at fault they should never have made a decision on verbal evidence and also should have passed it to the high court.
No my husband appealed and won his appeal the mother has created more fuss. We offered her a DNA test without the son and they would test mother and father and compare original results she refused this WHY? ONE REASON SHE IS GUILTY !!!
It has gone back to court and she has lied more and the court appointed the boy a Guardian who was meant to talk to the boy about why he wouldn’t do it instead he listened to the mother spoke to boy about computer games for 5 minutes! On that he compiled a report purely on the mothers say so and said he needed a psychologist!
We have had the psychologist report through and the boy says he doesent care about his dad or whether he is his dad or not he tells the psychologist his mother told him his dad said he wasn’t his at age 8!
the mother by her own dates said they seperated in Easter 1997 and got back together in November 1997 the child was conceived in October Ha the silly woman has hung herself with her own lies!
It occurs to me that there will come a day, sooner or later (but I think sooner) that labs and hospitals will lie to a man who is not the father of a child, claiming that he is the father. What’s in the best interests of government and “the children?” Do you think the powers-that-be give any thought to a man’s rights? Not anymore.
I think you should have paternity tests like you have drug-testing; just take a couple of samples, and send it off to a private lab. I think there’s a lucrative business opportunity there.
In Alberta, Canada, paternity fraud has been legalized. A female parent is defined solely by the act of giving birth, while a male parent can be defined by any one of a number of criteria, including ‘because mom says so’ and ‘because a court says so.’ Biology does not enter the picture at all for men.
I’ve found it’s even worse than that in Alberta.
According to my legal experts, a woman can name ANYONE as a father, and the court, through laziness or political correctness or chivalry or whatever, can, without giving any consideration to the matter, declare that person a father. The abuses here are breathtaking, but consider: It is legal for a woman in Alberta to name some stranger, who she didn’t sleep with at all, coached by her counsel, to be named the father.
Even worse, a paternity test may not necessarily exonerate him from child support, because a judge may decide to rule in “the best interests of the child.”
This is the reality of the world we live in, guys.