Ha! If you read the history of the "free love" movement (or just look around at society) you'll realize, some (many? most?) men are decent human beings, and will provide for their children, whether or not they are married to the child's mother. Other men (some? many? most?) are s***s, and will not provide, no matter what the law says-- they hid assests, they lie, they move, the send rubber checks.. Some men provide child support to any child their partner bears (even if it is obviously not theirs) others, run away from their responsibility, even when it is proven to be theirs..

(pick some/many/most from choice above based on your own feeling experience.) Marriage does not make a man (or woman!) honest!