In Re for Naturalization of Malaszenko

HARTSHORNE, District Judge.

It is settled by a series of decisions that a man owes a moral obligation to support his natural children. In re Perdiak, 162 F.Supp. 76 (D.C.S.D.Cal. 1958); In re Mogus, 73 F.Supp. 150, (D.C.W.D.Pa.1947); In re Nosen, 49 F.2d 817 (D.C.D.Wash.1931). Those cases also hold that willful failure to give that support shows the individual not to be of such good moral character as to entitle him to citizenship.

Now, in this case, contrary to the facts in the Perdiak case, Malaszenko did nothing whatever to support the child whom he was found by the court in Germany to be…