Paternity issues

[Ray Dillinger]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:

>
>I've heard similar figures from the CDC - when they discover 
>genetic disease, they often do tests to find out which parent 
>it was inherited through - and about the same fraction of the 
>time, they find that kids are no relation to their fathers. 
>

Here's another tidbit ... this time on a page that deals with 
genetic testing.  Their estimates for general population seem 
to be in the 10% range. 

at http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf706.htm:
   ... In about a
   third of the welfare cases and 10% of other
   cases, lab directors say that the father named by
   the mother turns out not to be the biological
   parent....

			Bear