Those who thought that all concepts of laches and similar issue preclusions from the passage of time have been thoroughly excised from the law of paternity and child support now stand corrected. When it is a case of a man petitioning to determine his paternity of children born 11 and 12 years ago (the mother herself having died in 1987), his inexcusable delay keeps him out of court. These children were placed in foster care in 1991, and even at that time this father had not come around to assert his fatherhood, nor was he making any claim to take over the parenting of these children. Payne v. Lynberg, ___ Va. App. ___, ___ SE2d ___, 12 VLW 66 (6/10/97).