Father's Responsibility

Paternity is one of the areas of family law where men are routinely discriminated against.Good fathering is hard work, but the most important kind of work men can do.Over the past thirty years, women have made remarkable progress in areas of society that had been dominated by men for centuries.Knowledgeable social scientists have linked fatherlessness to a wide range of social nightmares and developmental deficiencies. Partnerships where either party already has a child, or gives birth after the couple become civil partners.

If you and the mother are unable to reach an agreement about visitation with the child or other rights such as the right to see your child's school or medical records, you will have to go to court.Fatherhood, and what that means, encompasses many aspects: the biological, the social and the legal designation of recognized paternity.Failure to have fatherhood acknowledged effectively disenfranchises a father from ever having any involvement or right to involvement with his child.Sometimes a father may not want to acknowledge paternity hub of his child, and refuse to sign the relinquishment papers.If the biological father of a child wishes to stop that child from being adopted, he must file a court action to establish his parental rights. 


This is true even if the marriage is invalid. There are also situations where a married woman becomes pregnant by a man outside the marriage while her divorce case is still going through the court system.An adoption is a court order making a non-parent a parent of the child.A father may challenge that he is the father of a child and ask the mother to have a blood sample taken from her or the child.When a man fathers a child and is not married to the mother when the child is born, he has no rights until he establishes paternity.Father's rights include the right to visit one's children, the requirement that fathers be consulted before their children are offered for adoption.