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Others have shared some more heartwarming tales of using these services but I saw a story that in Australia a project is helping the children of sex tourists to look up their fathers via these services to get child support payments:

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/dna-helps-children...

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If you are sleeping with a prostitute isn’t there like an implied contract that you aren’t responsible for any resulting child? That is practically the entire purpose of prostitution.

If you sleep with someone you are responsible for any resulting child.

Prostitution in the Philippines is illegal so any explicit or implicit contract would be void anyway. Not to mention that consent is questionable anyway when most of these women are either trafficked or forced by economic hardship to partake in it.

A quick Google search suggests that in the US, you're on the hook.

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