Author Explain the Nuts and Bolts of Paternity DNA. -Damn, this is from my home state and such a fucked up and sad story but atleast it is being aired.

ignatiusloyola · 2011-03-17T13:28:04+00:00

Just a reminder - those stats about 48% of paternity tests ruling out the presented father just mean that 48% of the people who were concerned about the paternity of the child were found to not be the father.

Obviously, it doesn't give us an insight into the real numbers.

chavelah · 2011-03-17T12:58:31+00:00

"House Bill 25 by Hardaway, first drafted in 2007, says, "Regardless of the relationship between a child's parents, a genetic test shall be administered as provided in § 24-7-112 to confirm the paternity of the child before a father shall be listed on the birth certificate."

Does legislation like this have a chance of passing? Because goddamn, this would be wonderful. And maybe spread to other states.

2011-03-17T12:06:18+00:00

"A child has the inherent right to know, ‘Who is my dad?'" Hardaway said. "That should be a basic right, and we have the technology to make it happen."

A-men. But of course, it is already a basic right: UN convention on the Rights of the Child, article 7, part 1:

The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.

(emphasis mine).

eyeofthestorm · 2011-03-17T20:40:57+00:00

The number of men whose paternity tests reveal they are not the father varies by month, he said. "In February, about 48 percent of the (paternity) cases turned out to exclude the man who was tested," he said. "Our highest month was October, when it was 71 percent."

AntiFeministMedia · 2011-03-17T12:33:33+00:00

All states should be introducing mandatory DNA testing on babies and fathers at birth. Theres no excuse why this should be denied.

And for feminists to argue against it means that women have something to hide.

And this problem goes beyond men being financially and emotionally defrauded. It harms the children that are denied a biological father.

What people dont think about, is that as I've said before, there is an animal instinct involved in all this.

The so called 'father' or the child, may instinctively know theres something wrong, and so feel no bond with one another.

If its the father, he may continue to feed and cloth the child, but he may very well remove himself from that child, emotionally and simply as a presence in the kids life.

What you then get is a situation where essentially the child is being brought up by a single mother.

The mother is responsible for the disciplining of that child, and women can not fulfil that role effectively.

What you can then see is either the mother not disciplining the child effectively, and the kid running riot because proper boundaries are not set. They push and push their behaviour beyond whats acceptable, and that spills out into society. Juvenile delinquency and crime is a real possibility for these kids.

Another situation you can get is that the mother can become a 'tyrant mother' and dominate the child.

And in both of these situations the so called 'father' instinctively knows that its not his place to intervene, and there may be other issues which prevent him from doing so, particulalry if its the second child that he has doubts about.

Its a really messy area, which could easily be resolved with mandatory DNA testing.

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