This spells trouble on all sides. First as people have mentioned if you are the father of record the woman can go after you for child support, etc. Second you could get into a lot of trouble for forging papers. I think the motive here could be the mother would like her child to eventually get US citizenship, but if you try to do this and they find out that she's not your kid and you willingly signed the birth certificate (5 years later) they could get you for giving false information.
Anyhow I don't see any upside to this and the story of the child being stigmatized in school is week at best.
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