If a married woman is raped by a stranger, and keep the baby will her husband be force to pay, regardless, based on the best interest of the child?

[Adaeva]

GAG members did excellent in answering a similar question where the biological father was known. However, if the biological father is not known then, based on the best interest of the child, the husband is the only source for the money.

[RavVid]

The husband is the presumed father. In particular the father on the birth certificate is the biological father where I am. I don't think the nominated father has to sign and would think the mother can just nominate.

In particular the law takes the husband as the biological father if the birth occurred during marriage.

Regardless of the fact the woman was raped it is possible the husband is the father. Perhaps the woman was reluctant to terminate the pregnancy - it will be her child nonetheless. If she nominates her husband as the father then he would have to go through some legal process to cease being the biological father.

Obviously DNA testing would be sufficient to prove or disprove that. It would depend on the jurisprudence if the husband can get himself of the birth certificate. I wouldn't be surprised if it was difficult in some places as some nominal fathers (who never had sex with the girl in question) have had no recourse.

I think it all depends on the jurisprudence is the only answer. Where I am you just need a DNA test to remove your name as father from the birth certificate. You don't need a court order.

[DWornock]

The courts will someone to pay and if the rapist is unknown, very likely the husband will have. Of course, that is wrong and courts know it is wrong. However, those corrupt evil judges, are not interested in doing the right thing if it goes against their agenda.

[Adaeva]

I am sure what you intended to say, *The courts will look for someone to pay and if the rapist is unknown, very likely the husband will have to pay.

[Anonymous]

He shouldn't be made to pay for child support for a child that is not his regardless if the wife was raped of not. It's not fair to him

[Adaeva]

Since when is the government fair?

[Opinion Owner]

Government are A holers

[Summeroflove]

I don’t think most men would really mind it and raising the child as his own. Now if nobody knows who the rapist is that’s a serious problem. Yes the rapist should be paying money. He should be sued and forced in court to pay restitution.

[MasterButtram919]

Hell naw, that bitch is ruined once she been raped. Don't they take a hoe out in the street and stone her in the middle east once that happens?

[Adaeva]

I would not be surprised.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be surprised. I have heard of cases where men are forced to pay child support, even after proving the child isn't his.

[Opinion Owner]

Which is bullshit by the way

[Opinion Owner]

But yes it would be in the best for the child if the husband paid. But he shouldn't be forced or shamed for not wanting to support a child that isn't his. People should be angry with the rapist for putting that kid in that situation.

[Adaeva]

The rapist was a stranger so his identity is unknown. People may be angry with Jack the Ripper but so what? He was unknown.

[Opinion Owner]

By that logic, are women not angry with their rapist who's identity is unknown to them?

If you know that this baby belongs to an unknown rapist, NOT the husband, you should of course blame the rapist for the child starting life at a huge disadvantage. It doesn't matter if you can't put a face to the rapist.

[Opinion Owner]

The husband should not blamed/shamed. That's the only point I'm making.

[OddBeMe]

That’s where the cops come in generically find the rapist and jail him, keeping other women from becoming victims.

Then there are victims funds, etc…not enough. But if you keep the baby- which is very honorable, hopefully the govt would help.

[Adaeva]

Despite the belief that most women in such circumstances would want an abortion, a national study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that only half of those who became pregnant from rape had an abortion. Another survey of pregnant sexual assault victims found that only 30 percent had abortions.

[OddBeMe]

And that’s probably not all assaulted women, only reported ones. I hope there’s refuge for those brave mothers. Financially or what have you.

It’s a so, I’d investment to create productive environments for babies and children to grow. We don’t seem to realize this as a nation.

[inhua]

meanwhile there are married women who would abort the husband's baby and feminists will cheer her on

[Billlewis]

I don't know if he should be forced to pay, but I'd hope that he'd want to.

[Anonymous]

In France yes. In America if he has been acting as the father for a few years or his name is on the birth certificate. In the uk no

[Throwawaynowknow]

The determining factor is if his name is on birth certificate

[Anonymous]

The rapist can't keep the baby. That would be rape and kidnapped charges against him.

[Opinion Owner]

Kidnapping*

[Adaeva]

In case that is what I said, Is my English so poor that you did not understand what I was attempting to say?

[Opinion Owner]

I misread it. It's the kid of the person who raped. Husband doesn't have to pay anything

[Adaeva]

The oldest presumption of paternity is the “marital presumption,” which is derived from English common law. The presumption assumes that a child born during a marriage is the biological child of the mother’s husband. It is the marital relationship of the child’s parents that establishes paternity, rather than any biological relationship between the child and the father.
From The American Bar Association website.

[jshm2]

Not the same situation.

[Awantika03]

A cause of family break 💔