Gone, Baby, Gone: Briley Sends Campfield Paternity Bill To Summer Study
By Kleinheider Posted on April 21, 2008 at 8:10 amRep. Rob Briley plays Detective Bressant to Rep. Campfield’s Casey Affleck during discussion over a bill which would allow fathers to petition to the court to disestablish paternity after DNA evidence reveals a baby was not sired by the man on the birth certificate:
“I think this is the most anti-child piece of legislation I’ve seen down here in 10 years - by far,” said Briley.
“Do you believe in premartial sex?” Briley asked Campfield.
“I don’t see what that has to do with this (legislation),” replied Campfield.
With little variation, Briley repeated his question and Campfield his answer. Briley also asked Campfield if “you see adultery as wrong?”
“You’re talking about children that are the result of premartial sex or adultery,” Briley said.
“No. I don’t think that children should be involved in premartial sex,” said Campfield. He also expressed disapproval of adultery.
“Yet you want to punish a child as the result of an adulterous situation,” said Briley. “You put the child in the position of bearing the burden of a parent’s conduct.”
“Children never have to pay the child support,” said Campfield.
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Campfield should have asked Briley if he thinks adultery is appropriate.
Well, it shouldn’t be that difficult. All the mother has to do is admit who the actual father is, and have him paternity tested.
It won’t happen, due to a belief that lying about infidelity is not something that a mother should have any negative consequences over.
Better yet would have been this exchange.
Rep. Briley,”You can’t puinish the child by taking away the support they need”
Rep. Campfield “If the actual paternity does not matter, well we have a lot of unsupported children in this state, so how many of those children should we make Rep. Briley liable to support. These “fathers” are no more responsible for those children than he is, but he is responsible for obstructing one means of finding out who the real fathers are”.
The people who should be responsible for the financial support of the child are the people whose sexual activity created the child in the first place, not some man who was defrauded into believing that he was the child’s father. If the mother can’t support the child by herself, she’ll give up the real father’s name soon enough. I agree that it’s not fair to punish the child for its parents’ sins, but it’s also not fair to punish some unrelated third-party male.
Children also shouldn’t have to have mothers who screw around and then don’t let them know who their real father is. IMO, these children would, in general, be better off in foster care than with their deceitful mothers.
I find Briley’s DUI and cop-cursing to be profoundly anti-child. It’s anti-everyone actually.
Campfield’s bill is eminently sensible and fair. Briley for some reason thinks the legal system should aid and abet defrauding someone who is not the father.
Nobody is saying take the child support away. This bill just makes sure the right person has to pay it.
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Evidently down your way, sex is seen as a semi-military operation. Why else would sexual relations be described *three* times as premartial? Give us a chorus of “just before the battle, Mother.”
This has been a fight in the family-law area for years.
There’s always been high importance attached to “finality” in paternity-adjudication. Little Johnny thinks Joe is his dad, and has called him dad for all of his nine years. Do you let someone screw that up because of a paternity test? Why didn’t dad ask for that test nine years ago? The test was available.
Problem is, lots of states allowed for “default” adjudications, and, by the time “dad” was found and served, it was past the time when he could challenge the results. States wanted this - even if “dad” hadn’t been found, they’d have an existing support order against “dad”, so when “dad” was finally found, the state could hit him up for all of the overdue support (to pay the state back for the state aid that mom got because of having the kid.) (You generally can’t go after child support from pre-order times - so having the order as early as possible was important to reimbursement.)
No easy answer. It’s not as cut-and-dried as it might appear from this article.
Sorry - Part 2:
The other usual instance is when mom screws around with people who are not her hubby. When a kid is born to a married couple, the legal assumption is that dad is . . . well . . . “dad.” No one has to prove that dad is “dad” - dad has to prove he’s NOT “dad.”
What happens when, five to ten years later, maybe during the divorce, dad finds out that mom was out screwing around, and notices that little Johnny looks just like the guy who comes around with Moonie literature every year? Is it fair to dad to have to pay support for Johnny? But also, what does it do to Johnny to find out his dad went to court in order to stop being his dad?
Again, no easy answers (beyond the obvious “this is a condom, you wear it over your head and it looks stupid and thus no woman will want to have sex with you.”)
So the safest, smartest thing is for males not to allow their names on birth certificates other than their own, seeing as how misplaced trust is a common human mistake and one can expect no sympathy or justice in that event.
It’s very likely that Briley is motivated by the usual lobbists who realize and profit from the fact that federalized child support pays the states to divide families and to keep single parenting the commonality it is.
Please do not argue this matter on subjective grounds. Follow the money and follow the political power. Briley is.
Following the money, as Briley surely knows all about in his “ten years”, is what this is really all about. Briley is shameless in his interrogation and arrogant in his godplaying, yet he should be shamed at all 50 statehouses are being bought off by Title IV-D advocates, which include lawyers, including those sitting on these sham committees, and gender feminists.
The presumption that Briley makes, in what I presume is a baldfaced defense of the billion dollar business of tearing apart families in family court, is that cash serves kids. In fact, the very corruption of the child support system is what produces single parenting, and it does so by design. Therefore child support is anti family.
Briley hides his power and motivation behind the ruse that opposing child support is harmful to children. He is precisely 180 degrees out of phase with reality.
Briley is a perfect example of the pontificating that goes on in support of damaging children by way of the federalized child support system, a for-profit apparatus that enriches lawyers and special interests by making sure as many children go single-parented as possible.
For nearly every single parent there is a disenfranchised parent who pays for the luxury of being extorted from in what amounts to the state’s legalized kidnapping scheme. Read Stephen Baskerville’s, Taken Into Custody to learn how the federal government pays the states to produce single parents.
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I like Rep. Campfield’s approch. Might tweak a ting or two though. If I’m found not guilty of a crime (IE:decision against me) I’m off the hook. It should be the same with child support. Seems the mother’s are getting an easy pass here. That’s where the responsibility needs to lay. Make the mother responsible. It’s already quite clear the court is more then willing to make the “Male” father or not responsibile.
It’s really simple. Mandatory paternity testing at birth.
End of story. If this was in place already, then this bill would not even need to be proposed as law.
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