The French government claims that fatherhood is determined by society, and not biology. That is a very unscientific law.
It is. A child does not need to be genetically related to their parents. Adoption is a common practice.
Ideally, legal and biological fatherhood should be one and the same. That way you can find your genetic history for medical purposes and legal family tree for historical purposes. But tragically, in a few cases, legal and biological fathers are not the same.
This is of course a value judgement. I'm sure many adoptees would disagree with your assessment that their situation is tragic.
It's a biological and common sense judgment.
> I'm sure many adoptees would disagree with your assessment that their situation is tragic.
Ideally ( all things being equal ), adoptees would want to be with their "ideal" biological parents. Of course if the biological parents are dead, abusive or too poor to provide for them ( tragic ), then adoption is better than nothing. But I can't think of any child who wouldn't want to be with their biological parents all things being equal.
I mean, I could similarly assume the ideal to be mass incubation in artificial wombs, followed by randomly selected adoption.
Laws can't fight reality.
You can't make something work by going against reality. You can pretend it will work by itself - for a while.
This is usually called "delusion" and it takes a lot of resources to maintain it.
And I wonder, what is it such an issue in France? I wonder if rates of misattributed paternity are higher there.
So ya, maybe misattributed paternity is pretty common there.
And yours is an extraordinarily myopic view. It should be obvious that fatherhood is more about kinship bond, duty, and obligation than it is about genetics.
There's a lot of information access to which is, by law, forbidden, or restricted.