You can now be forced to pay child support - including for kids that aren't your own kids - without ever being married.
There are people who'll do anything for money. Some of those people are women, and occasionally a man succeeds at this too. Children are a way to extract large amounts of money over time from partners. The state cooperates with this practice because the state will be on the hook otherwise.
https://www.fcfcoa.gov.au/fl/pubs/defacto
You can now be forced to pay child support - including for kids that aren't your own kids - without ever being married.
There are people who'll do anything for money. Some of those people are women, and occasionally a man succeeds at this too. Children are a way to extract large amounts of money over time from partners. The state cooperates with this practice because the state will be on the hook otherwise.