Hi im kinda in the saem boat at the min with a 9 month old baby! iv e met a few guys and a few have been put off because they cant deal with it but the way i look at it if they like us enough they wont care what baggage we have... to the guy who said single mum are easy, get lost!

An Ontario woman with 3 children is collecting child support from 6 different guys. The Courts have said this is OK.

I don't get how this is possible. The 3 children can't have 6 fathers, right?

In Canada, you can be on the hook for support if you're involved enough with your girlfriends kids too...
Also, if your spouse cheats, and gets pregnant, you can be on the hook for support, and then she or welfare can go after the real father...

Over 2 million(!) men in this country are currently being forced by courts to keep up kids they are not the biological fathers of. Can you say injustice?

A SHACK UP is not financialy responsible for your children by law.

Ontario Supreme court ruled that divorcee Pasqualino Cornelio continue to pay child support for his 16-year old twins even though paternity DNA testing revealed that he is not in fact the twins’ biological father.

Some of the relevant factors in defining the parental relationship are: whether the child participates in the extended family in the same way as would a biological child; whether the person provides financially for the child (depending on ability to pay); whether the person disciplines the child as a parent; whether the person represents to the child, the family, the world, either explicitly or implicitly, that he or she is responsible as a parent to the child; and, the nature or existence of the child’s relationship with the absent biological parent.

The nature of a parental relationship is complex and includes more than financial support. People do not enter into parental relationships with the view that they will be terminated. Concerns that individuals may be reluctant to be generous toward children for fear that their generosity will give rise to parental obligations were dismissed. It is important to examine the motive behind a person’s generosity towards the children of the person they wish to be involved with or are involved with in a relationship. Superficial generosity given merely because a person seeks the attention of a child’s parent should be discouraged because the rejection experienced by the child when that financial and emotional support is abandoned is not beneficial to society in general and to the child in particular.

The concern that a child might collect support from both the biological parent and the step-parent was not a valid one. The contribution to be paid by the biological parent should be assessed independently of the obligations of the step‑parent. The obligation to support a child arises as soon as that child is determined to be “a child of the marriage”. The obligations of parents for a child are all joint and several. The issue of contribution is one between all of the parents who have obligations towards the child, whether they are biological parents or step‑parents; it should not affect the child. If a parent seeks contribution from another parent, he or she must, in the meantime, pay support for the child regardless of the obligations of the other parent.

Don't want to hurt ur feelings..Men nowadays (I know I'm going to get ridiculed- but kiss it u bitter men)..they are not raised right..

I can tell u my son is almost 9 and its been hell to find a man that can be upfront and honest about excepting me and my son..From experience if a man doesn't seem involved with ur child upfront or pretends to be at first and ignores later, then hes not the one to get involved with..I have never met that man yet, and I'm not saying u won't..Just be careful, its a hard lesson learnt..