End men’s financial responsibilities in cases of deceptive conception
We wish for men to be allowed to relinquish themselves of all responsibility arising from imposed paternity.
Signatures
84
signatures
Government response threshold (10,000) · 84/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 84/100,000
- 24 DEC 2025Petition opened for signaturesCreated by Ellie King
Background
At this time, men are deemed responsible for the financial contribution of a child regardless of whether or not they consented to the child been conceived. Having experienced, first hand, the impact that forced fatherhood/imposed paternity has on men across the nation, I think something needs to change. If a woman lies about her inability to conceive a child to become pregnant, the father has no legal rights but to pay support even if they have proof that the mother has lied.