"Mark Borgerson"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1c7b2bced8afa4659896dd{at}news.comcast.giganews.com...
> In article , dg411{at}FreeNet.Carleton.CA
> says...
>>
>> Mad Mambo Master of Macedonia (newb{at}newb.com) writes:
>> > dg411{at}FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andre Lieven) wrote in news:cur652$7la$1
>> > {at}theodyn.ncf.ca:
>> >
>> >> It also doesn't take a degree to do some research, and
find out that
>> >> many of the studies cited in such matters, were NOT studies looking
>> >> for false paternities, but were DNA studies that had nothing to do
>> >> with
>> >> paternity issues, and where the information about numerous false
>> >> paternities were merely *byproducts* of the wider DNA research.
>> >>
>> >> In which case, on *can* postulate that the sample group IS fairly
>> >> representative of the wider population.
>> >
>> > FWIW, this obviously wasn't the case in the newspaper article posted,
>>
>> One rarely gets context from pop media. That is why people interested
>> in a given topic, should seek out more indepth materials, so that they
>> could possess more context, than such a pop media writer.
>>
>> And, the context is that, when you sample from groups that have nothing
>> to do with issues of paternity, you still find false paternity rates
>> in the region of 3-5%. That sounds small, but applied to hundreds of
>> millions of people, and kids, its several million families.
>
>
> A pop writer might  say "several million families----however
> married couples with children make up only about 25% of
> the 98 millions households in the USA.   So  5% of 25% 0f 98 million
> is not quite "several million families".  It's just over a million
> families.    You could also probably reduce that number significantly
> if you found that multiple cases of paternity fraud occured in
> some families, while the incidence was lower overall.
>
> http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2623_v125/ai_19313486
>
> That's only one part of the argument, though.  Unmarried men who are
> cohabitating can also fall  victim to paternity fraud.
>>
>> > or it certainly wasn't made clear if it was in fact the case.
>>
>> Sure. See above.
>>
>> Andre
>>
>>
>
> Mark Borgerson

I has to chuckle last night. My wife and I watched C.S.I. Miami. The bad guy
was the son of a foreign diplomat with immunity.
They got him in the end by proving the father was not the biological father
using DNA. The son was somewhere around 30 years old.
Oh of course the bad guy got what he deserved, Oh! that poor woman!! That
unfeeling bastard of a father.




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