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A Toronto-area man must continue paying child support to his former wife despite DNA tests proving he is not the biological father of her 16-year-old twins, an Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled.

... In making her recent ruling, the judge referred to a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision that said if someone acts as a parent and provides support for a child during a marriage, they are obliged to continue that financial support after separation or divorce -- even if the child is not biologically theirs.

"While the failure of Ms. Cornelio to disclose to her husband the fact that she had an extramarital affair and that the twins might not be his biological children may well have been a moral wrong against Mr. Cornelio, it is a wrong that does not afford him a legal remedy to recover child support he has already paid, and that does not permit him to stop paying child support," Judge van Rensburg wrote.

Source: National Post

Don't you love the current legal climate. You can have an affair with children resulting from it, but as long as you lie about it until after the children are born, the father fool is stuck with a lifetime of child support payments.

I'm curious if there have been any situations in which the mother later married the biological father of her children - would child support payments be cut off in such circumstances?

"You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature"

- Paul C. Lauterbur, Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine, in Bio-IT World

If you have some time Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is an interesting read, giving some background for such a conclusion.

In the Gaza Strip people are returning home -- or to the rubble that was once their home. Many are blaming Hamas for the destruction because the militants hid among civilians and attracted Israeli fire. Yet no one dares to speak out openly.

What is left over when a person is hit by a tank shell. Blood, tissue, bone splinters, splatters on the wall. And anger.

Mohammed Sadala's rage is aimed at the man, whose remains he found in his bedroom: a Hamas fighter. He and a comrade broke into the home which had long stood empty after the Sadala family fled. The Hamas men shot at the approaching Israelis from the balcony. The soldiers fired back, killing the militants and destroying the house of the 10-strong family in the process.

- Excerpted from an article in Spiegel

Consider also evidence of Hamas use of U.N. ambulances for troop transport. Now even the UN is complaining that Hamas is stealing food supplies and preventing them from getting to civilians in the Gaza strip.

... others are writing theses about it:

Fans take their love to extremes -- but divine love?

That's the thesis of Theo Zijderveld, who's doing postgraduate work on the intersection of faith and "World of Warcraft" at University of Colorado's Center for Media, Religion and Culture.

... Zijderveld is interested in how people's spirituality has become more fluid and pluralistic. As he put it in his thesis, "People combine Christianity with yoga, Buddhism and self-help books" and "believe without belonging."

(Excerpted from Colorado Daily)

That last line incidentally reminds me simultaneously of two books I read recently: Mike Horton's Christless Christianity and A.J. Jacobs Year of Living Biblically. The first is a critique; the second an application.