Germany’s Justice Ministry has introduced a change in the law that would oblige mothers in certain paternity cases to reveal who were their sexual partners during the conception period.

The measure would apply when men who had supported a child, believing they were the father, sought financial redress in court. They could, thus, more easily claim maintenance back from the actual biological father.

The law in question is intended to offer more legal protection to ‘false’ fathers to seek financial compensation.

Why can’t a similar law applicable for ‘false’ fathers be also extended to eliminate ‘unknown father’ from birth certificates?

Between 2008  and 2014, in Malta we had about 1,300 babies born from ‘unknown fathers’.

If a woman cannot identify a man with whom she had a child, then we must be living in a cuckoo island.