About three or four months ago, this topic came up and at the time....I felt like that it'd turn out to be mostly fake news. Time has passed, and most of what was said....seems to be proven true.
The basic story? The Berlin leadership says there is a new trend developing....called the 'fake-father' situation. A pregnant foreign gal (non-German, and non-EU) will come up and have cash. They will hire a German guy to say that the child (yet unborn) is their child. Amount discussed? It ranges from 5,000 to 10,000 Euro. Once the child is born, the father signs the paperwork, and the kid is 'given' (there should be a better term but there isn't) German citizenship. Because the kid has German citizenship, the mother now applies for residency and receives the visa. Marriage required? No.
You can stand and admire the simplicity of this. Cash in hand....no one seeming to patrol the front door.
How many occur? The authorities think it's near 5,000 a year, but they admit....it might be double or triple...only because there's no one really looking at the problem.
Added to this whole story is that if the father is near social welfare (Hartz IV).....well, he doesn't have to pay child support and the government gets stuck having to cover that cost.
One case got brought up by Deutsche Welle....of a Berlin guy who'd fathered off a minimum of ten kids via this method.
Fixing this? Well....you'd have to mandate a DNA test, and the pro-asylum folks say that would be unfair because if you stop this method....the kid born (probably in Germany) would then be without a nation, and couldn't get a visa or passport....from any country except the mother's home-country.
Odds of a crafted law to fix this? They might go and write some law that says if you accept money for a fake-father situation....you'd get a hefty tax (like 75-percent), but that'd just pump up the asking rate for the women in this situation. Beyond that, I don't see anyone in the Bundestag wanting to grab onto this and try to write some repair law (it'd get you dragged in front of cameras and being accused of being anti-child).
In my imagination, I can just see this German dude on welfare, sitting at some pub and working up the deal for 7,000 Euro to be a fake-father, and doing this four times a year....thus making this his full-time job. Twenty years from now....the ARD news-people will stumble upon Johan (who hasn't worked in twenty years) but collected 28,000 Euro a year (non-taxable income), and fathered eighty kids. Someone will make a movie over it and Germans will just shake their heads in disbelief how it was quietly all accepted by the authorities.
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