It's something we've always suspected and now we can prove.

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> On May 23, 7:45 am, Mark Borgerson  wrote:
>> In article <PX8Zj.28690$U61.5...@newsfe12.ams2>, gf010w5035
>> @blueyonder.co.uk says...
>>
>> >http://whatmenthinkofwomen.blogspot.com/
>>
>> > Shock ! REALLY.
>>
>> > 33% of births are questionable about the father..
>>
>> 33 percent of all births or 33% of the small fraction of
>> births that have DNA testing done?
>>
>> > Really, what a surprise!
>>
>> >   Shock as paternity tests reveal different dads
>> >   10/05/2008
>>
>> >   More than one in three women seeking paternity tests discover that 
>> > the man
>> > they thought was the father of their child is not the biological dad.
>>
>> Yep,  I thought so.  Not 33% of all births.  33% of those seeking
>> paternity tests---which means that they had some doubts to start with.

It's the men who had doubts, females don't care. The only time a female 
would take a DNA test is if she's had a kid by some loser and wants to see 
if perhaps another wealthier man is really the father so then she can shake 
him down for $$$



>
> When you really think about it, 33% of paternity tests taken by people
> who were suspicious in the first place, is not that big a number! Do
> you know of any statistics that give an estimate of the ACTUAL numbers
> in regard to the ENTIRE population?
>>
>>
>>
>> >   Some mums needed tests done on five different men to identify the 
>> > real
>> > father.
>>
>> >   In the past year, the number of women giving the wrong name as parent 
>> > of
>> > their child has gone up to five per cent to 39 per cent, according to
>> > paternity testing firm Anglia DNA. Director Dr Thomas Haizel said in 
>> > such
>> > cases, women were asked to name the men they had had sex with in the 
>> > month
>> > leading up to becoming pregnant.
>>
>> >   He added: "One client gave up, claiming, 'It could be any number of 
>> > people'.
>> > The same woman had already tried five different potential fathers with 
>> > no
>> > positive result."
>>
>> > Posted by Christianj
>>
>> Mark Borgerson
>