Reply #159: It's not the nobility of the State...

[txaslftist]

...but the State's interest. Much better for the state if paternity is established early and definitively, both in the area of welfare benefits as well as legal rights of parents. Also better for the state in terms of lines of property distribution. Also better for the state because the state doesn't want to support a bunch of homeless children tossed out because the father only wanted kids of his bloodline, despite the fact that he was dumb enough to pick a cheating wife to marry.

Does the child have a right to know he's a bastard? What good does the knowledge do him when he's still a child, and adults are making all decisions for him? What better choices will he make, as a child, due to knowing he's a bastard? Does he have a right to know his mother is/was a cheating wife? Again, in what way does the knowledge serve him?

Does the husband have the right to disown the child because he's not of his blood?

I say no. But that's me, king of the chumps.