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25-30% of men are raising kids that are not there own. Would you ask for a paternity test for your child?

30% of Men: Not the Father?
A quick online search gives frighteningly alarming figures; many articles claim that as many as 30% of men are unknowingly raising another man’s child. This would mean that out of a class of 60 students, 20 of them are growing up calling the wrong man dad.

Where did this 30% figure come from?

This is an often misunderstood statistic provided by some paternity test labs regarding the percentage paternity tests with a ‘not the father’ result. Most paternity test labs report that about 1/3 of their paternity tests have a ‘negative’ result. Of all the possible fathers who take a paternity test, about 32% are not the biological father. But remember, this is 1/3 of men who have a reason to take a paternity test - not 1/3 of all men. That is a huge difference!
25% of Jamaican fathers are raising children that are not there own.

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25-30% of men are raising kids that are not there own. Would you ask for a paternity test for your child?
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