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 USA  wrote:

> On 1 Mar 2005 14:35:41 -0800, mark_sobolewski{at}yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >My wife and I had a fun conversation watching Sex and the City.
> >
> >Charlotte, in the show, had divorced from her trophy husband
> >because of problems she was having conceiving with him
> >and him not cooperating with her fertility clinic visits.
> >
> >My wife suggested, jokingly, that she was stupid.  She could
> >always just get another man's sperm and say the child
> >is the husband's, right?
>
> Many things said in "jest" are meant sincerely just the same.  I would
> never make such a "cute" suggestion to my husband even jokingly.

I wouldn't worry about that because our family has pretty
strong... stuff. :-)

> I've
> never even thought about doing it to him or any other man I was
> involved with.  The thought of it is abhorrent to me.  For that
> matter, even if I hated the man, I would not be able to play such a
> lousy trick on my own child.
> >
> >I told her that DNA testing could be done just by taking some hair
> >from the child on a car seat and his own to the drugstore,
> >buy a kit, and that's that.
>
> What kind of kit is that?  I've never heard that DNA testing can be
> done outside of a laboratory.  In many places a court order or a
> doctor's order is still required.

You buy the kit and send it into the laboratory and check
it out on the internet.  Or just send the material to a friend
in the states who can send it into the lab.

> >Her eyes got all wide and she proclaimed: "That's not GOOD!"
> >and laughed.  I know she's a good person and wouldn't
> >want to do such a thing, but how many women knowing this
> >technology exists are now thinking twice?
>
> So she has dishonest ideas and you respond by lying to her and she is
> in return greatly surprised (as in temporarily foiled?).  You both
> might want to start sleeping with one eye open.

:-)

I've read newspaper articles that labs will test just
about anything that comes their way.  Men can check
to see if their wife is faithful by sending in her dirty underwear
and the lab can see if there's another man's semen on them.

regards,
Mark Sobolewski


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