Judicial Mumbo Jumbo

Can a legal system really unmake a dad?

Soon enough, according to British law, Yohane Banda will no longer be David Banda's pop and Guy Ritchie will. The new dad, along with mum Madonna, felt compelled to search Malawi for a kid to adopt and Banda has now agreed that insanely rich Europeans can outcomfort a child beyond the means of a well meaning, caring, but dirt poor, Malwaian.

Also, according to the Kentucky Supreme Court, the husband of a woman who gives birth is the father of that child even when he contributed neither genes nor chromosomes (or anything else biological) to the newborn.

On the one hand we have love not being enough to make a father; and on the other we have biology not being enough to make a father. So, it must be on the third hand or maybe fourth that we have whatever it is that actually defines a dad.

** Very often the law is used as a bat to whack two balls. **