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It's a chicken-and-egg dilemma. Mandatory testing will come about when glaring public attention gets focussed on the issue -- at which point, new data (possibly even more glaring) will come to light. And so on.
So the immediate question appears to be centered on the 4% figure: Does it "glare" brightly enough, or doesn't it? After all, glare is what we need in order to get that mandatory testing in the first place.
4% breaks down to 1 in 25. I myself would call that a significant number, such that one is justly entitled to say " uh...we have a problem here." But that's just my poor little counterfeminist opinion; not everybody in this big, apathetic world would share it.
Anyway, my gut feeling is that the actual number is a tad higher -- perhaps in the 6-8% range. (I'm using my conservative "guts" today! ;-)
One good way to get the glaring searchlight effect is to massively publicize the evil, criminal, Stalinesque situation currently existing in most states, where almost any man can be "fingered" as a father, and trapped -- with a big fat No Exit sign nailed to the door and DNA results be damned, buddy!!.
Massively publicize this, and.....good things will follow. Among others, the logic and utility of DNA testing in general will be forcefully borne home upon the public mind. Even if DNA testing isn't made mandatory by law, the hullaballoo could generate moral pressure shockwaves upon the populace, and DNA testing would become more and more common -- under the banner of "Do the Right Thing". At which point the statisticians would have their field ripe for harvest. :-)
The Long March Through the Statehouses will of course continue -- spearheaded by the likes of Carnell Smith, et al.
Throughout this and all similar campaigns, whenever you discuss the evil which you intend to remedy, you should append to the footer of every page, the chorus of every song, the metabasis of every speech, and to every picket sign -- like an eternal undying mantra -- the following deadly phrase:
"FEMINISM MADE THIS HAPPEN."
My fountain of ideas overfloweth, but I shall clamp the spigot down for now.
-Fidelbogen-
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Anonymous User writes "The Sept. 18 issue of PARADE (found in many Sunday newspapers) mentions that "the average rate of 'paternal discrepancy' (i.e., paternity FRAUD) in the Western world is about 4%". PARADE also states that 'paternal discrepancy' is highest with young mothers, because they are more likely to have multiple sexual partners."