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NY Times today:
Dr. Enrique Terrazas, 39, a clinical pathologist from California, said his ex-wife eventually told him that one of his two children was not his child. His second wife had urged him to do the test because of a lack of resemblance between father and the child. In his view, what kind of person would have asked his own wife for a DNA test?
Dr. Terrazas cried on the telephone as he recounted the fallout. Because of the resulting dispute over child support payments, he said, he no longer sees his child regularly. His ex-wife's current husband is in the process of adopting the child.
He said that his relationship with the child "has been destroyed."
Dr. Terrazas's former wife answered a request for an interview with an e-mail message that said, "I do not want anything to do with any media coverage that focuses adversely" on her children. It is the fallout faced by the children, most child advocates and lawyers say, that is most traumatic. And the men who seek to halt child support payments - an act many of them say is an attempt to right a wrong, rather than to abandon the children they still care about - are surprised to learn that they are still required by many courts to continue to pay because it is deemed in the best interest of the child, especially if the man is the only father that child has ever known.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/fashion/sundaystyles/02DNA.html?pagewanted=1
Oh this line is classic: But some women are more deliberate in what Mr. Leving called "father shopping," picking the best provider possible even when he is not the true father. Lawyers like Mr. Leving advise to take the test without the mother's knowledge, "that way if he's the father, he doesn't have to start conflict with the mother."
Got to love women like this: An Albuquerque woman claimed she had a 5-year-old daughter by her ex-husband, but an Albuquerque judge says that child has never existed.
Viola Trevino was ordered to bring her child, Stephanie Renee Trevino, to court by Monday.
Several hours after her deadline, Trevino walked into court with a little girl in her arms. But the girl, a 2-year-old, was somebody elses child.
Dr. Enrique Terrazas, 39, a clinical pathologist from California, said his ex-wife eventually told him that one of his two children was not his child. His second wife had urged him to do the test because of a lack of resemblance between father and the child. In his view, what kind of person would have asked his own wife for a DNA test?
Dr. Terrazas cried on the telephone as he recounted the fallout. Because of the resulting dispute over child support payments, he said, he no longer sees his child regularly. His ex-wife's current husband is in the process of adopting the child.
He said that his relationship with the child "has been destroyed."
Dr. Terrazas's former wife answered a request for an interview with an e-mail message that said, "I do not want anything to do with any media coverage that focuses adversely" on her children. It is the fallout faced by the children, most child advocates and lawyers say, that is most traumatic. And the men who seek to halt child support payments - an act many of them say is an attempt to right a wrong, rather than to abandon the children they still care about - are surprised to learn that they are still required by many courts to continue to pay because it is deemed in the best interest of the child, especially if the man is the only father that child has ever known.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/fashion/sundaystyles/02DNA.html?pagewanted=1
Oh this line is classic: But some women are more deliberate in what Mr. Leving called "father shopping," picking the best provider possible even when he is not the true father. Lawyers like Mr. Leving advise to take the test without the mother's knowledge, "that way if he's the father, he doesn't have to start conflict with the mother."
Got to love women like this: An Albuquerque woman claimed she had a 5-year-old daughter by her ex-husband, but an Albuquerque judge says that child has never existed.
Viola Trevino was ordered to bring her child, Stephanie Renee Trevino, to court by Monday.
Several hours after her deadline, Trevino walked into court with a little girl in her arms. But the girl, a 2-year-old, was somebody elses child.
