Which countries have outlawed paternity testing?

[Suits]

What reasoning did France use for making paternity testing illegal?

From the Wikipedia article:

Any paternity testing without a court order is banned, due to the official desire to "preserve the peace" within French families, with the French government citing psychologists who state that fatherhood is determined by coexistence rather than biology. French men often circumvent these laws by sending samples of DNA to foreign laboratories, but risk prosecution if caught. The maximum penalty for carrying out secret paternity testing is one year in prison and a €15,000 fine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_testing#France

There is one reference:

http://www.ibdna.com/regions/UK/EN/?page=paternity-testing-ban-upheld-in-france

I think I get it. If the child is born to your wife, you're on the hook, but if the child is born after some random hookup, she can get a court order to make you get the DNA test and then pay up?

 

[Rawmeo]

I agree with the mandatory paternity tests at birth. Simply an automated process where the mother gets divorced and not a penny for the child. A sort of "you wanted to make me father of a child that's not mine, then be stuck with your bastard child and take care of it yourself".

It is also a dumb idea to ban those tests, as most French citizens go to Spain to get tested. Just a few hours drive and you get legally tested.

Unfortunately, in most countries, family laws are strongly biaised towards women, even when the father is clearly in the right. Every man should be careful when signing the paternity declaration, even when he is 100% sure his wife was faithful.

 

[SlickyBoy]

It's not about keeping families (for the moment ignoring the reality that if hes not the father's kid, there IS no family) intact (if that were truly the goal, it's the first I've ever heard of ANY such desire by a western government), it's about passing the buck to cuckolded husbands so they and not the state pays for the child's upbringing. I would not be surprised to see this technique exported.