Paternity issues
Ray Dillinger
bear at sonic.net
Thu Mar 15 13:28:47 PST 2001
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
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