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Child Identity Rights
The children's rights movement calls it "child identity
fraud". The father's rights movement calls it "paternity
fraud". It's the same thing by a different name. There
are 3 victims: the child, the biological father and the
male falsely identified by the mother to be the child's
father.
Child identity rights affect adoption registries, sperm
donors, medical information rights, birth registration forms
and other government and agency documents and records.
Read the interesting Scottish article "
Donor names: ill-conceived idea or every child's right?
" "Who is my father?" is about to be answered.
Some countries now require that records be kept of egg
or sperm donors involved with invitro fertilization (IVF).
The arguments about child identity rights also affects issues
such as adoption registries and the lack of reproductive
choice for men. See our webpage
"Reproductive
Rights".
Legislature of Saskatchewan passes 2 laws violating
a child's rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms while disobeying the decision of the Supreme Court
of Canada and violating the U.N. Convention on the Rights
of the Child
Two new laws were passed in June of 2004 in Saskatchewan
in response to the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in
Trocuik v. British Columbia (Attorney General).
Saskatchewan is the first province to formulate change
to their laws resulting from this Supreme court decision.
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Eggs for sale: The booming business of sharing your
fertility
It is illegal in this country [UK]. But that does
not stop growing numbers of
British women contacting websites to generate thousands
of pounds with their
ovaries.
The Independent, UK, November 7, 2006
Victoria describes herself as "fun loving, generous and
considerate". The 29-year-old blonde is "naturally slim
with good bone structure", and an accomplished ballet dancer.
Danielle, 26, has wavy chestnut-coloured hair and blue eyes.
A teacher by profession, she is "tall, athletic and outgoing",
and also a part-time model. These are not adverts on internet
dating sites. Victoria and Danielle are just two of a rapidly
growing number of young British women rushing to cash in
on the latest way to make money: the egg donation business.
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Teen Sues Mother for ID of Father
By Tresa Baldas, The National Law Journal, U.S.A.,
August 11, 2006In a case that family law experts fear
could set a dangerous precedent, a Michigan teenager is
suing his mother to learn the identity of his father.
Family law attorneys say the issue of compelling a mother
to reveal the identity of the biological father is a new
area of law. And depending on how the Michigan judge rules
in the case, they say, courts nationally could see a new
flood of lawsuits of children suing their parents.
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Jeanette Papp of the University of California at Los
Angeles, feels that 15 per cent is rate of paternity fraud
for the Western world, even if there is no hard evidence.
"It's hard to do studies on these things for ethical
reasons," says Dr. Papp, director of genotyping and
sequencing in UCLA's department of human genetics. "I
mean, how do you tell people what you're really looking
for?"
A British survey conducted between 1988 and 1996 by Robin
Baker, a former professor at the University of Manchester,
confirmed the 10-per-cent figure. That seems high to skeptics
such as Dalhousie University geneticist Paul Neumann, although
even he admitted that "my colleague, who's a woman, tells
me women have no trouble believing it. . . . It's the men
who can't."
Bernard Dickens, a specialist in health law and policy
at the University of Toronto, said that in another British
example, the non-paternity rate was three times that.
"In the early 1970s, a schoolteacher in southern England
assigned a class science project in which his students were
to find out the blood types of their parents. The students
were then to use this information to deduce their own blood
types (because a gene from each parent determines your blood
type, in most instances only a certain number of combinations
are possible). Instead, 30 per cent of the students discovered
their dads were not their biologically fathers. "
South Korean husband successfully sues wife for Paternity
Fraud and gets marriage annulled. Wins $42,380 in
compensation
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Australian man wins lawsuit against ex-wife for Paternity
Fraud
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1 out of every 6 children in Canada is a victim of Child
Identity Fraud / Paternity Fraud. That's 5 million Canadian's
[full story]
Charter Challenge- Statement of Live Birth (Birth Registration)
Info - Dads and Children Win
Supreme Court of Canada Decision- June 6, 2003,
The British Columbia Vital Statistics Act, R.S.B.C.
1996, c. 479, on their own or in their effect, discriminates
against biological fathers on the basis of sex, by providing
biological mothers with sole discretion to include or exclude
information relating to biological fathers when registering
the birth of a child, contrary to s. 15(1) of the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Read the whole story, the Supreme Court of Canada
decision, newspapers articles and our comments about how
this not only affects fathers but supports children's identity
rights.
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Doctor at fertility clinic statement about naturally
born children:
"These children do not have the right to find out who their
genetic father is. The name on their birth registration
certificate is their social father. If a child conceived
through donor insemination is to have the right to know
who their genetic parents are, we should have a discussion
about these children too."
- Dr Stewart Irvine, Edinburghs fertility clinic, Scotland,
U.K.
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About Child Identity Fraud / Paternity Fraud
Child Identity Fraud / Paternity Fraud is the fraud perpetrated
when a woman who knows, or who should know, or who has reasonable
grounds to know who impregnated her, identifies the wrong
man as the biological father of her child.
Child Identity Fraud is the violation of a child's right
to know their own identity and the identity of his/her father.
The child has a right to have a relationship with his/her
biological father. Identity is an important factor to every
person.
Mommy's little secret
The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's 2 national newspapers,
The article contains info about children's identity fraud
at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
December 14, 2002.
Includes interview with employees of Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who admit they deny
children's identity information to husbands/male partners
of mothers who want to hide the real identity of their child
because they had an affair. The U.N. Convention on the Rights
of The Child specifically supports a child's human right
to have a relationship with both his/her biological parents.
In addition, this article is proof that The Hospital for
Sick Children ("Sick Kids") supports paternity fraud.
Further "Sick Kids" supports a mother's rights only,
which they view, supersedes 3 other people's rights, namely,
the rights of the biological father, the rights of the mother's
male partner/husband and the child's identity rights.
About
The Hospital
for Sick Children. Affectionately called "Sick Kids",
is one of the largest paediatric academic health science
centres in the world, with an international reputation for
excellence in health care, research, and teaching.
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Newspaper Articles
about Children's Identity Rights / Paternity Fraud
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Man fights for custody of son
Child now in care of Prince Albert couple
The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, by Lori Coolican,
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Ever since an anonymous caller tipped him off about his
impending fatherhood, a Saskatoon man has been fighting
for custody of his baby son, who was mysteriously whisked
out of a local hospital within days of birth and is now
living with a well-to-do Prince Albert couple.
"At what point do you sit back and say, 'Laws have been
broken here?' " Rick Fredrickson said in an interview Friday.
"I just wish someone could crack this thing open and find
out who was involved." It was mid-April and Fredrickson's
ex-girlfriend Tricia -- not her real name -- was almost
due to deliver their child when he found out she was pregnant.
The anonymous caller, who identified himself as a relative
of Tricia's, warned Fredrickson that she was telling people
he was the father and vowing he would never get to see the
baby, though she didn't want to keep it herself.
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Calls for Investigation into Why Man Was Ordered to Pay
Child Support for A Non-Existent Child
U.S. Newswire, December 9, 2004
DALLAS, Dec. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Steve Barreras paid child
support for a 5-year-old daughter who his ex-wife claimed
was his. Despite never being able to actually see the child,
Barreras did pay $20,000 in child support as required by
the court. The problem is -- the child has been declared
nonexistent by an Albuquerque judge. "There is no child
...," she said.
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"Supreme Court rules in favour of dads"
The Toronto Star, from Canadian Press, June 6, 2003
OTTAWA Mothers who arbitrarily refuse to acknowledge the
fathers of their children shouldn't be allowed sole power
to name their children, Canada's highest court says.
Men wage battle on 'paternity fraud'
USA TODAY, by Martin Kasindorf, December 12, 2002
An acid sense of betrayal has been gnawing at Damon Adams
since a DNA test showed that he is not the father of a 10-year-old
girl born during his former marriage.
"Something changes in your heart," says Adams, 51, a dentist
in Traverse City, Mich. "When she walks through the door,
you're seeing the product of an affair."
But Michigan courts have spurned the DNA results Adams offered
in his motions to stop paying $23,000 a year in child support.
Now, Adams is lobbying the state Legislature for relief
and joining other men in a national movement against what
they call "paternity fraud."
In almost a dozen states, men have won the right to use
conclusive genetic tests to end their financial obligations
to children they didn't father. But women's groups and many
public officials responsible for enforcing child support
are battling the movement, which they say imperils children.
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Paternity: Innocence Is Now a Defense
U.S.A., July 14, 2004, by Wendy McElroy,
www.ifeminists.net
Partner child support at issue
Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) to rule on 2 women who split
before a birth
Lesbians sue sperm donor for child support
Boston Globe, U.S.A., By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff,
March 1, 2004
Torrance Man Vows To Change Child Support Laws
Man Ordered To Support Child He Says Isn't His
NBC News, Los Angeles, U.S.A., March 2, 2004
DNA testing upsets parentage laws
The Grand Rapids Press, MI, U,S.A., By Doug Guthrie, February
29, 2004
Sperm and the quest for identity
BBC News Online (British Broadcasting Corporation), U.K.,
by Clare Murphy, January 20, 2004
What are the implications of
banning anonymous sperm donations, as speculation mounts
that the UK may give children conceived through donor insemination
the right to trace their biological parents?
Donor names: ill-conceived idea or every child's right?
The Edinburgh Evening News, Scotland, U.K., January 20,
2004
Former Army Paratrooper Faces Paternity Fraud
ATLANTA, GA, U.S.A., Nov. 12, 2003, U.S. Newswire
States Consider Laws Against Paternity Fraud
Child Advocates Worry About Effects
By Robert E. Pierre, Staff Writer, Washington Post,
U.S.A., October 14, 2002, Page A03
Paternity Fraud Legislation Sweeps the Nation
Group Plans Town Hall Meeting in NJ Showing Plight of
Victimized Families
MND Newswire, New Jersey, U.S.A., April 30, 2003
Heir pushes for DNA use in his paternity suit
A scion of the Johnson & Johnson fortune wants a new
law so he can limit a daughter's inheritance.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, U.S.A.,Trenton Bureau, Dec. 28,
2003
Shouldn't Men Have a Choice, Too?
The Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Francisco Daily
Journal, U.S.A, by Glenn Sacks, February 18, 2002
MPs consider rules for reproductive technologies
TORONTO - The House of Commons debated a bill Friday that
could make it more complicated for infertile couples to
have a baby.
Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) October 28, 2003
Who's my dad?
Infidelity 'is natural'
BBC, U.K., September 25, 1998
Preserving Paternity Fraud
The Orange County Register, by Dianna Thompson and Glenn
Sacks, California, U.S.A., October 3, 2002
Sign of the times: Firm offers paternity testing on billboard
National Post, Susan Heinrich, March 30, 2002
Men wage battle on 'paternity fraud'
USA TODAY, by Martin Kasindorf, December 12, 2002
Infidelity--It may be in our genes. Our Cheating Hearts
Devotion and betrayal, marriage and divorce: how evolution
shaped human love
Time Magazine, U.S.A., 1995, By Robert Wright, August 15,
1994.
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