You mean the child isn't mine?

[BlackCryptoKnight]

In Jamaica, we call it "giving the man a jacket". Some women conceive with one man, then try to convince another man that the child is his.

Tanya Stephens has a song about this called Little White Lie

What is going on in a woman's head when she does this? Men, how do you feel about this practice of some women? If you found out that your child wasn't really yours, how would you react?

[Chicokid]

We take this to the Maury show to do a DNA test

Anyways I would be disappointed to know that my partner betrayed me

[nuhsenutten]

i would b angry that she lied to me .....

wha kinda maury .....straight jerry springer ........
cause we nuh inna di jacket business

[Gwadinka]

Some women do so because they know that the jacket man is a much better person and think that he will be a much better father to the child. As individuals, some women may be close to the more depisable kind but for ome being a good mother is the most important thing and they want to be sure to do the best thing possible for their kid.
Let's be clear I do not condone, I simply understand the reasons.

[nester-san]

Well, to be honest there are two things to do:

Walk away/Distance yourself; hard to do unless your resolve is firm, esp if you and kid are attached emotionally.
Plus once your name is on birth cert, I hear you are LEGALLY obligated to be caregiver

Grin and Bear it;

Fatherhood is not determined by sperm donor, but by care..

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Plus once your name is on birth cert, I hear you are LEGALLY obligated to be caregiver

You're kidding right?
So if you get tricked, put your name on the birth certificate, then find out you were jacketed, yuh jus' salt?

Naw star. Something's wrong with that equation.

[AngelsKiss]

Plus once your name is on birth cert, I hear you are LEGALLY obligated to be caregiver

The father's name can only be added if you are married. If not the father has to be present at the birth certificate office or a signed and witness form.

Also if my memory is correct, if the couple is married, whether the man is the biological father or not he is deemed responsible by law.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

The father's name can only be added if you are married. If not the father has to be present at the birth certificate office or a signed and witness form.

Also if my memory is correct, if the couple is married, whether the man is the biological father or not he is deemed responsible by law.

Who is going to force a deceived man to take responsibility for a child that isn't his? The woman couldn't be bright enough to try and force him to support the child.

[AngelsKiss]

Who is going to force a deceived man to take responsibility for a child that isn't his? The woman couldn't be bright enough to try and force him to support the child.

If they are married the law will enforce it

[BlackCryptoKnight]

If they are married the law will enforce it

How many marriages remain intact after something like that? Not many men would really stay, much less care for the child after that.