This is from the same country that bans (and will criminally charge "fathers") for performing a paternity test. [0]
Wait until they learn about Stand Your Ground laws... [1]
[0] https://www.ibdna.com/paternity-testing-ban-upheld-in-france...
Wait until they learn about Stand Your Ground laws... [1]
[0] https://www.ibdna.com/paternity-testing-ban-upheld-in-france...
The regulations (in French) are here: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F14042
I think it was after a survey on cheating and promiscuity, but I'm not sure of this since this was just something I heard of from other people and I can't find much from a quick search on the internet.
The reasoning is that the priorities of the child come before the priorities of the father, so in order to protect the stability of the family you are not allowed to know.
As to who supports this, a lot of women seems to be in support of it (they have nothing to gain from opposing it) and all the people who seem to 'think of the children'.
Some politicians claim to be against allowing the paternity test on the ground that it is against the values of the republic since it's an aknowlegment of the importance of relations blood, genetics, and race(ism), but these are the words of politicians so they don't mean much.
So the judge can simply say no and the (legal) father is now on the hook. And furthermore, the legal system will manufacture a criminal if the legal father decides to test his own DNA with the one of his alleged (for whom he is financially responsible) child.
Preventing someone from attempting to prove their own innocence is similar to the witch trials of old and a grotesque violation of human rights. Any sovereign legal system preventing defending ones innocence through modern forensic means, has little grounds to protest if as a result their legal system is openly mocked and ignored by other countries that do support defending self innocence.
The fact that a supposed modern nation with elected officials elections should have a miscarriage of justice this grotesque seems akin to a theocracy or monarchy that decides at arbitrary the outcomes of legal proceedings without any actual consistent basis for ensuring justice is upheld.