What a tangled web!!

The important distinction, of course, is between the validity of fact as viewed scientifically, and the system of agreements evolved among citizens to optimize the survival of offspring. If, as you say, the adjudication of the child's best interest is firmly entrusted by law with the mother, then his request goes against that agreement even if it may be motivated, for example, by her suspicion that the actual father could not be located or turn out to be a poor provider, or an embarassment to her. Such a test might be seen as violating a right not to incriminate oneself.

I suspect this story, if played out in the U.S. would get just as tangled up as it seems to have gotten in Germany. Just an opinion.\

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