This poem is personal. There is a law called, “marital presumption of paternity” it is listed on the nycourts.gov website. The law states, “…that the spouse is the other legal parent of a child because the couple are married. This is true even if the spouse is not the biological father or the mother and spouse are not married to each other now”. It does not consider that the spouse may not be the father due to separation or divorce. If the mother was married during the pregnancy, the biological father has no rights to the child.
To know that someone that has never even met your child, does not even care for your child, has nothing to do with the child, has legal rights. It is terrifying. With no rights, the biological father has no responsibility. They can just walk away until it is rectified. My son is 9 years old; his father has no legal rights or obligations. My spouse lives in a different country, I have not seen him in 12 years. He has never met my son.
Works Citied
“Paternity if the Mother is Married”nycourts.gov nycourts.gov/courthelp/family/paternityMarried.shtml Accessed April 12, 2023.
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