It's now widely accepted among those who work in genetics that roughly 10 per cent of us are not fathered by the man we believe to be dad.
Geneticists have discovered this phenomenon while conducting large population studies or looking for genes that cause diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
In the early 1970s, a schoolteacher in southern England assigned a class science project in which his students were to find out the blood types of their parents. The students were then to use this information to deduce their own blood types (because a gene from each parent determines your blood type, in most instances only a certain number of combination are possible). Instead, 30 per cent of the students discovered their dads were not their biologically fathers.
Would you want to find out who your real father is?
Should he continue paying child support?
Should he be able to sue your mother for paternity fraud?
Geneticists have discovered this phenomenon while conducting large population studies or looking for genes that cause diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
In the early 1970s, a schoolteacher in southern England assigned a class science project in which his students were to find out the blood types of their parents. The students were then to use this information to deduce their own blood types (because a gene from each parent determines your blood type, in most instances only a certain number of combination are possible). Instead, 30 per cent of the students discovered their dads were not their biologically fathers.
Would you want to find out who your real father is?
Should he continue paying child support?
Should he be able to sue your mother for paternity fraud?
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