If someone gets a divorce without knowing they were pregnant, then finds out, is the divorce reversed or does the women just get sent to jail. Maybe both.
Well either they were stupid, or they knew exactly what they were doing.
I used to think that you should never attribute to malice what's easily explained by stupidity. And as I've grown up, I find a lot of malicious assholes hide behind stupidity.
People cheated for sure, but if you were married you were simply on the hook for the offspring even if it wasn't yours.
I'm not saying the law is good, I'm saying it made sense for the time it was passed in. Now that we have genetic testing to confirm paternity or should be repealed.
Or they could have just created the law that said “the child was conceived under wedlock, the husband is on the hook.”
But details. There’s no reason to use birth, as the critical time. Because if they knew she was pregnant to hold the divorce…. Then they could just make the guy cough up support. (Including while pregnant.)
Or they could have just created the law that said “the child was conceived under wedlock, the husband is on the hook.”
To make someone the father they have to inform them of it. There's nothing stopping the father from flying the coop once divorced. While the proceedings are in progress, the judge has the right to keep the father to be present. And this was more of a concern when you could disappear and start a new life by moving across town.
I heard once that after no-fault divorces started becoming wide-spread, murders of husbands by their wives decreased, since women now had a way to get out of a marriage.
I often used to scratch my head at hearing creaky old cons complaining about no-fault divorce. I thought those crusty old sort had mostly left this plane, but it seems some of the young cons are now making that a thing again.
They really, really, really just want to control the wimminfolk. Things like contraception, access to financial services, being able to drive, and yes, abortion ("on demand", as if anything else makes any sense - what the hell else would any health service be, FFS - I've always laughed at people adding "on demand" to the conversation as if it's a BAD thing. ) drives a certain type of person (men AND women, by the way) up the wall...
