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leraconteur2002{at}yahoo.com says...
> Consider the AABB numbers which have held steady at 28% for the past 5
> years.

Consider this from the AABB 2003 report:
"
MISCONCEPTIONS IN PARENTAGE TESTING
It is important to understand the significance of the exclusion rate,
especially since the statistic has been misinterpreted in the past. For
example, several organizations have used the exclusion rate to suggest
improperly that 30% of men are misled into believing they are biological
fathers of children. This suggestion is incorrect. The exclusion rate
includes a number of factors. One is that the men are alleged to be
fathers. This is important as a woman may allege several men as possible
fathers because she was sexually active with these individuals. These
are not men who were misled into believing they were fathers and then
later discovered they are not. The testing merely sorts out which man is
the biological father so presumably that he can assume his parental
role. Another factor is that sometimes men are accused and tested
because a man who is not excluded is alleging that the mother had
multiple sexual partners as part of his defense. Sometimes a man is
required to be tested because of a legal presumption, that is, when the
mother properly names the correct father but because she is (was)
married to someone else, there is a legal presumption that the husband
is the father. The husband is then tested to rebut the
legal presumption, not because he was misled into believing he is the
biological father of the child."

http://www.aabb.org/About_the_AABB/Stds_and_Accred/ptannrpt03.pdf

Note also that the AABB statistics do not represent a random sample
of the population--they are merely a compilation of results from
their affiliate labs---which test people who have requested the
test for one reason or another.
>
> The divorce industry in the US is very large, and as a matter of course
> divorce attorneys will strongly recommend that men get DNA tests
> performed on all of their children.
Do you have a cite for that?
>
> 1.2 million divorces per year in the US, and 56% of all marriages end
> in divorce.  70% in California.

True,  but consider also that if you wait until you are over 25 to
get married,  the odds of divorce are only 1 in 4.

For everything you want to know about divorce statistics, see:

http://www.divorcemag.com/statistics/statsUS.shtml
>
> There is not necessarily suspicion on the husbands part; merely the
> fact that he is participating in a divorce.
>



Mark Borgerson




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