'In English law a biological father has no right to be recognised
legally as the father via the legal status of PR [Parental
Responsibility].'
By MRA-UK: In this post I draw attention to a little known feature of existing primary legislation concerning the recognition of a man as the father of a child, that is, having Parental Responsibility.
One of the signature issues which, alone , would be sufficient to justify a men’s movement, is the extent to which women control men’s fertility and paternity. A woman automatically has Parental Responsibility (PR) for a child to whom she gives birth. A man has PR if he is married to the mother when the child is born, or if he is named on the birth certificate as the father. Note that neither of these conditions relates to biological (i.e., genetic) fatherhood.
In English law a biological father has no right to be recognised legally as the father via the legal status of PR. If he is not married to the mother, then – short of obtaining a court order – his legal status as a father is entirely dependent on the mother’s consent. If she does not want him to be recognised as the father then she is legally entitled to prevent it and he can override this only via a court order.