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East Tennessee > Should You Pay Child Support for Someone Else's Child?

Katie Allison-Granju at Knoxvilletalks - Standing up for wrongly accused babydaddies everywhere:

Campfield proudly announces that his bill - which he himself dubs the “Not the Baby Daddy Bill” - is back:

I had a bill this last year to make it possible to allow people who find out through DNA testing that they are not the biological parent of a child to stop making future child support payments on said children.

Glad to see Sen. Campfield continues to find creative avenues for his seemingly boundless legislative energies.

It is curious to me, however, how much of his work seems to be related to matters of human sexuality, something a lawmaker who espouses limited government might reasonably believe generally falls outside the purview of said smaller government.

Look, Campfield has some truly brain dead ideas - like his plan to forbid the mention of homosexuals or homosexuality in schools - but this ain't one of them. There's no ethical principle by which a man should have to pay parental support for children that aren't his. And in this case Campfield actually is standing up for limited government (a rarity for him) - the government shouldn't be able to force you to pay for a large portion of the care of a child that isn't yours just because you slept with the baby momma once but didn't impregnate her.