>... so when the moment presents itself he will gladly sign
>that birth certificate because he believes in his heart that
>this is his child he's signing off on even in cases where he
>can't stand the child's mother.


>Also, in the case of a long term committed relationship or
>married couple the man doesn't really have a reason to suspect
>a child to have been fathered by anyone else but himself.

If I were a man seeing what I've seen... I'd get a paternity test anyway.