Article ignores paternity fraud data

Submitted by Marc A. on Fri, 2011-01-28 19:59

In claiming false paternity is rare, Marlene Zuk ignores important data from the American Association of Blood Banks showing 30% of 300,000 annual DNA tests are negative. NCFM posted that data at http://www.ncfmla.org/pdf/na-fraud.pdf

Marlene only talks about false paternity overall, which is hard to measure because most men don't get tested. The 30% figure, on the other hand, is a solid and consistent figure every year. It's not randomized, so it can't be projected onto the general population. But it gives us a raw number. It tells us at least 100,000 men are misidentified as dads every year in the U.S. alone, especially because that's only from accredited labs (at unaccredited labs, the percentage of negative results is about 22%), and these figures only count the men who get tested - most do not.

The bottom line is that hundreds of thousands of men are misidentified as dads every year. That's not insignificant, Marlene.

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http://www.canadiancrc.com/Newspaper_Articles/Globe_and_Mail_Moms_Little_secret_14DEC02.aspx

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Submitted by Kratch on Sat, 2011-01-29 18:51

A few years back I was under investigation by a couple of different gov. org. that didn't have my best interests in mind. I was fighting a paternity suit of a child in question. The child was over 18, but there was a very large of arrears in question. I paid for the test and there was a delay in the process. I called and at first was told that there wasn't any information about my case on record, I informed them that I had the receipt, that the young woman in question had taken the test as well, and I told them the name of the man that I had spoken to. The woman got nervous, at first told me that there wasn't anyone there by that name, and then recounted almost immediately telling me that he wasn't around usually and that she would connect me to him. The man was sarcastic from the beginning, I told him that I wasn't sure if she was my daughter or not due to the circumstances, and that we both had a right to know. He at that point informed me that the young woman had spent her entire life believing that I was her father, and that was important. Whoever this man was it is due to him that to this day I am not sure if that woman is my daughter or not. The test was done at Brigham Young U. and they are supposed to be on the square?

David A. DeLong

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Submitted by David A. DeLong on Mon, 2011-01-31 21:05