A Culture of Adultery

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Women who support their so-called right to have an abortion indicate that it is their body, and nobody, especially the father of the child, has any right to tell her what she can and can't do. The father, when it comes to the choice of ending the life of his child, is a second-class citizen who has no say on the issue of whether or not his child lives or dies. Yet, these same women, should they decide to keep the child, and leave the man, are the first to demand he pay child support.

With the advent of DNA testing, however, more evidence of the moral decline of our nation is being unveiled, and it is official: Many women in the United States have no shame, having hidden their adultery, and the true identity of the fathers of their children.

A stunning article titled "Who Knew I Was Not the Father?" appeared in the New York Times on November 17, explaining how DNA testing is changing fatherhood. The piece featured a number of heart-wrenching cases where the father of a child found out through DNA testing that he was not the biological parent.

In many cases these men, after finding out about their wife's infidelity, paid child-support for children they didn't even father.

The real painful part of it all is that often these men, despite the betrayal, still see these children as theirs. They love them as their own.

What have we come to as a nation when children are nothing more than a throw-away item, and adultery is treated as if it is nothing more than a little white lie?

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Who Knew I Was Not the Father? - The New York Times