The perils of the £30 paternity test - The Telegraph (2011)

bertreapot · 2015-05-12T15:21:28+00:00

"it may be harmful to families" is code for it's something women don't want. for obvious reasons. hence, anti-feminist, misogynist, etc., is how the media will spin it. ignoring the fact that a father should have the right to know if he is raising his child or not.

Dus10_ · 2015-05-12T15:29:40+00:00

“I think the problem is that people see parenting as the transmission of some essence of self – that is delusional garbage. Genes are the least important thing of all of it. The relationships are what matter. “If someone asked my advice about buying one of these tests, I would advise them to see a good psychotherapist instead.”

This guy is a dick.

RedPillAnonymous · 2015-05-12T16:14:50+00:00

Funny no-one blames the lying cheating whore for ruining the family. No, it's the man's fault. He's ruining the family by not wanting to be deceived into raising a child that isn't his. Women's hostility to paternity tests shows how rampant the problem is.

govt_took_my_baby · 2015-05-12T16:29:35+00:00

This article is 4 years old. Paternity DNA tests now cost £99 and you can get them in news agents and any chemist! They are very easy to buy.

There is no reason in the UK why every man should not be 100% sure of who are his real children.

garglemesh42 · 2015-05-12T19:32:33+00:00

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_pluto_ · 2015-05-12T19:14:39+00:00

Don't have a link handy but I'm pretty sure a study showed that men who realize they have been cuckolded suffer a similar degree of trauma to rape victims.

The fact that feminists think paternity fraud is no big deal tells us all we need to know about their empathy towards men.

richardnorth · 2015-05-12T15:48:38+00:00

It threatens their precious narrative that women are so wonderful.

thesmos · 2015-05-12T17:46:25+00:00

“If someone asked my advice about buying one of these tests, I would advise them to see a good psychotherapist instead.”

Says the psychotherapist. For the $30 cost of the test kit you could have a very therapeutic 10 minute conversation with a therapist. With the price of processing the kit included you could talk for a whole hour.

If genetics don't matter why don't they just randomly assign babies at the hospital -- "Genetics don't matter so here is a random baby who was born on the same day as your actual child."

rodrigogirao · 2015-05-12T15:51:49+00:00

Feminist logic: feels over reals. Nothing new here.

leftajar · 2015-05-12T22:04:50+00:00

Of course the mainstream, government-approved publication is going to oppose cheap paternity testing; Welfare enrollment will balloon with legions of cuckolding women.

Lrellok · 2015-05-12T22:07:10+00:00

Informed consent; vitally critical for women, totally irrelevant for men.

Cassius969 · 2015-05-12T21:56:53+00:00

So much air over nothing. If the tests get banned then somebody else will do them for 200 instead of 30 pounds.

2015-05-12T21:00:09+00:00

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2010/10/an-instrument-of-choice.html

Dicentra steers us to the musings of Melanie McDonagh and a feminist rationale for fraud, dishonesty and extortion.

It begins thus,

It’s a wise child, they say, that knows its own father.

The subject being pondered is DNA paternity testing and its consequences. Given what follows, you may want to bear that opening sentence in mind.

For the entire course of human history, men have nursed profound, troubling doubts about the fundamental question of whether or not they were fathers to their own children; women, by contrast, usually enjoyed a reasonable level of certainty about the matter. Now, a cotton-wool swab with a bit of saliva, plus a small fee, less than £200, can settle the matter. At a stroke, the one thing that women had going for them has been taken away,

The one thing?

the one respect in which they had the last laugh over their husbands and lovers.

I hadn’t realised parenthood was about having the last laugh. Clearly, I need to brush up on the etiquette of modern mating. But surely paternity tests merely level the playing field in a matter of some gravity? What mama knows (and doesn’t say), papa can now find out. In terms of paternity, is that really such a crushing injustice?

DNA tests are an anti-feminist appliance of science, a change in the balance of power between the sexes that we’ve hardly come to terms with. And that holds true even though many women have the economic potential to provide for their children themselves… In making paternity conditional on a test rather than the say-so of the mother, it has removed from women a powerful instrument of choice.

Choice that may include deception and extortion.

Uncertainty allows mothers to select for their children the father who would be best for them.

Suckering former lovers? Not a problem. Mama wants a selection box. Depriving a child and its actual father of a chance to know each other is also apparently fine. Because uncertainty allows it. Feminism, so conceived, seems to entail the right to a little moral sleight of hand. But hey, choice!

The old situation, in which women presented men with a child, and the man either did the decent thing and offered support, or made a run for it, allowed women a certain leeway… Paternity was ambiguous and it was effectively up to the mother to name her child’s father, or not… Many men have, of course, ended up raising children who were not genetically their own, but really, does it matter?

Answers on a postcard please.

Title	The perils of the £30 paternity test - The Telegraph (2011)
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Date	May 12, 2015 3:00 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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