Child's Origin and Parenting

Abstract

Although the largest number of people today consider parenting as the most beautiful, important and noblest calling, not everyone has held this opinion. In addition, we can say that the this appraisal of parenting is true only if a parent wants to accept the child and the role of parent. The biological (genetic) ties between parents and a child are the most common basis of parenting, but they are not the crucial legal factor. The crucial element is the willingness of the parents, particularly fathers, to accept their child and the role in parenting.

There are many legal examples of this. For example, until recently, through the history of social development, the legal position of an illegitimate child was very unfavorable and depended on the will of a father (sometimes also of a mother) to recognize his illegitimate child. Biological (genetic) ties were of no importance if the father did not want to accept his child. The proceedings for establishing the child's paternity by a court’s decision could take a long time to complete, and in many countries it was even forbidden to initiate them.