Carolyn C. v. Frank G.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Aileen Haas Schwartz, J.

The familial entity established by the nonmarried parents in this proceeding reflects an increasing contemporary phenomenon, the so-called “nonmarital family”, that wreaks havoc with classic legal standards of parental responsibility towards a child born of such union.

Respondent father emphasizes the child’s status as illegitimate1 and posits traditional norms consonant therewith to buttress a support obligation in the amount of $100 weekly. Petitioner mother advances the standard of living fashioned by the parents during an almost eight-year *511period…