Men Are Being Forced To Pay Child Support On Children That Are Not Biologically Their Own

In recent years, I found out that in the state of Indiana men are forced to continue to pay child support on kids that are not their own. It happens because they were married to the child's mother, believed the child was theirs biologically and did not contest paternity at the time of the divorce.

The way I look at it is the mother gets a reward for cheating and deceiving a man into thinking he is her child's father. Meantime, her ex husband not only has to deal with the fact the kid is not his biological child but he is forced to help her to support that child, until it is at least 18, without a choice in the matter.

I personally think this is done to keep the mothers from collecting Walfare for the said child. The state hides behind "it is in the best interests of the child" while making sure someone else foots the bill.

I can not find a specific law that states this but I did find the quoted information below on this site: Disproving Paternity in Indiana

"In the court’s eyes, Father had an opportunity to confirm his paternity when the case was established, and declined to do so. It’s a harsh form of “you snooze, you lose."

Since the above is the case, I think paternity testing should be mandatory at the time of a divorce. Of course, if they did that, they could not stick a man with supporting a child that is not biologically his own.

That said, I hope the man, in a situation like this, would want to continue to be part of that child's life and not let the child go without anything it needs. I just don't feel he should be forced by law to help the mother support the child when she cheated on and deceived him.

I do not believe in letting a person who is in the wrong off the hook while making an innocent person pay the price.

I know there is an innocent child involved in all of this but my opinion is that it should be up to the mother to go after the real father. The mother alone is the one who put her child in this predicament.