Paternity fraud and compensation for misattributed paternity
Paternity fraud and compensation for misattributed paternity
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DOI：
10.1136/jme.2005.013268
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发表时间：
2007-08-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Draper, Heather
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作者：
Draper, Heather
当发现错误的亲子关系时，可能会提出要求偿还子女抚养费、撤销财产和解和赔偿的要求。这种说法的伦理理由似乎与抚养孩子的经济成本、承担这些费用没有选择权、抚养孩子的辛苦工作、与孩子形成的情感依恋、妇女如实声称亲子关系的义务以及不忠所涉及的欺骗有关。本文认为，不应该对不忠行为进行赔偿，如果索赔人已支付子女抚养费但尚未承担父亲的社会角色，则报销是适当的。另一方面，如果索赔人的行为表明了对父亲身份的社会看法，那么赔偿要求就不太连贯。在父亲身份的遗传模式占主导地位的情况下，“其他”男人（妇女的情人和孩子的祖先）也可能要求失去父亲身份的好处。结论是，在父亲身份错误的情况下要求报销和赔偿会产生与亲子鉴定所假设的父亲含义相同的扭曲和薄弱的观点，并强调了一种不符合儿童利益的趋势。
Claims for reimbursement of child support, the reversal of property settlements and compensation can arise when misattributed paternity is discovered. The ethical justifications for such claims seem to be related to the financial cost of bringing up children, the absence of choice about taking on these expenses, the hard work involved in child rearing, the emotional attachments that are formed with children, the obligation of women to make truthful claims about paternity, and the deception involved in infidelity. In this paper it is argued that there should not be compensation for infidelity and that reimbursement is appropriate where the claimant has made child support payments but has not taken on the social role of father. Where the claimant's behaviour suggests a social view of fatherhood, on the other hand, claims for compensation are less coherent. Where the genetic model of fatherhood dominates, the "other'' man (the woman's lover and progenitor of the children) might also have a claim for the loss of the benefits of fatherhood. It is concluded that claims for reimbursement and compensation in cases of misattributed paternity produce the same distorted and thin view of what it means to be a father that paternity testing assumes, and underscores a trend that is not in the interests of children.