John Young[SMTP:jya@pipeline.com]
Men usually got a hangup about paternity, and many don't want to know the truth, so the 28% is surely way low, in particular to protect the kids and the wives and to keep the men in harness. Them's the facts of biology and culture and healthy workplace economies.
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Never, ever have your blood tested, nor your brain. Keep your head up where the sun don't go. Read the papers, call what you see lies, distortions of your motherless bastardy.
The Bard dealt with this issue, as he did so many others: Pedro. You embrace your charge too willingly: I thinke this is your daughter. Leonato. Her mother hath many times told me so. Bened. Were you in doubt that you askt her? Leonato. Signior Benedicke, no, for then were you a childe. Pedro. You haue it full Benedicke, we may ghesse by this, what you are, being a man, truely the Lady fathers her selfe: be happie Lady, for you are like an honorable father. Ben. If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not haue his head on her shoulders for al Messina, as like him as she is. - Much Ado About Nothing, Actus primus, Scena prima ... and he here also points out why many men don't bother with testing - family resemblence is convincing enough. I have two daughters. One is the image of my sister as a child, and the other looks so much my mother did at that age that people mistake childhood photos of one for the other. In the absence of any particular reason for doubt, blood tests would be a waste of time and money. Peter Trei