August Pamplona wrote:
> Hardpan wrote:
> > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3171380a10,00.html
> >
> > Sly DNA tests show 1 in 3 dads duped
> >
> > 30 January 2005
> >
> > By TIM HUME
> >
> > Hundreds of Kiwi men are paying out almost $900 for secret tests in

> > Australia to determine whether they are really a dad.
> >
> > And the company which runs the tests says that in one in three
cases,
> > the man finds he's been duped.
> >
> > The men have been secretly sending samples of saliva or hair to
> > Australian clinic DNA Solutions because they often find the test
here
> > is blocked when the mother won't give her consent.
> >
> > The tests are used by men who suspect they are not the child's
> > biological father, to disprove fatherhood of children they are
paying
> > for - and in some cases to get access to a child they believe is
> > theirs.
>
> [snip]
>
> 	IOW, 2 in 3 men who think they are not their putative child's
> biological father are actually wrong! I'm almost surprised that the
> number is that high.
>

    No. The men merely suspect that they might have been misled.
    This is obviously going to snow ball as more and more men begin to
think the unthinkable about their families.


> August Pamplona
> P.S. BTW, that's a pretty misleading headline (that seems to be a
> common problem with newspapers).
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