Why would N.O.W. oppose paternity tests when 30% come up negative? Support of SLAVERY as defined under US LAW?

Question

Today, 30% of DNA paternity tests, nearly one in three, prove that the man involved is not the father of the child in question:

http://www.rense.com/general51/chsup.htm

With ~4M children born per years, this means 1.2M Men every year are victims of paternity fraud.

This also means that 1.6M men are paying child support for children that are not theirs.

Feminists are trying to outlaw paternity testing:

http://www.michnow.org/patact.htm

With child support fitting the definition of peonage or slavery:

http://antipeonage.0catch.com/

"Peonage is thus legally required labor to pay a debt or obligation."

Why are feminists, represented by the body the National Organisation for Women trying to outlaw protections for men from paternity fraud?

Are these the actions of a movement in support of equality and social justice?

Answer 1

In my opinion NOW is for women interests only. Not womens rights as they say. Interests, as in: whatever aids the woman is a good thing. Fathers have been getting the shaft for a long time. Not only this way but in custody cases and amt. of support to be paid etc. No one stands up for the rights of the man. It's ridiculous. I say this as a mother who is receiving child support, a very low amt, but what the father can afford to pay. My children are well taken care of, I do not need to break the guy. Just his help....that's all!

Answer 2

First of all, I think your argument that because 4 million babies are born each year, there are 1.2 million men that are not the father is flawed. Many men simply trust the mother, and so never get a paternity test done. Usually when there is a test done, there is a basis for it, i.e. distrust, and sometimes rightly so. I do not consider myself a full-fledged feminist, however I do believe in some of what they do. It is not slavery to pay child support, it is simply your duty, as a parent. That goes both ways, because there are more and more fathers who have custody of children. The custodial parent usually knows what the children need most, and so should be able to make those choices without too much question. As a single mother of three, I know that it is hard to raise them by myself and needed the child support just to make basic needs. What a lot of noncustodial parents don't realize is the high cost of childcare, having to leave work because of a sick child, and therefore losing pay, and just plain being too tired to prepare a dinner every night, and so the occasional eating out costs money. Not to mention the fact that you can buy several different sizes of clothes in one year for a child because of growth spurts, school lunches, etc., I could make this list longer, but you get the drift. I would not however, disagree that there needs to be more regulations in checking that the money is spent on the children. My ex-husband passed away last year, and so now my children receive SSI benefits. I have to account for all that money that I spend, and something like this could be implemented.

Answer 3

These are not the actions of equality. Feminism seem to believe that domination is the definition of equality - as if "equality" means that it's someone else's turn.
Equality is supposed to look beyond the differences, not focus on them.