Weekend Edition: Fathers Won’t Like These Odds
Readily available DNA tests are revealing an interesting and possibly disturbing factoid: 1 in 25 men are bringing up children they mistakenly believe are their own.
A study by scientists from Liverpool John Moores University concludes that 4 percent of all men are unwittingly bringing up a child they have not fathered.
Even more disturbing, of the men who demand a paternity test because they suspect infidelity, 25 percent have their suspicions confirmed.
This might be one of those cases where we are all better off not knowing.
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August 14th, 2005 at 5:30 am
…kinda like…”breakin’ sumpthin’ that’s pretty -well fixed”
August 14th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
That’s right son.
August 14th, 2005 at 1:14 pm
My daughter looks exactly like me in facial features, so she is mine, or the SOB who fathered her looked exactly like me.
August 14th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
That’s right son #2.
August 15th, 2005 at 5:59 am
“Insider Says:
August 14th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
That’s right son.”
Hmmmm…Not bad…Not bad at all…you got some promise…
The Boyz at the Jammy