Paternity tests determine that 1 in 3 fathers are not the biological parent

An interesting snippet of information from Anglia DNA Services as reported in the UK’s Daily Record the other day reveals that up to 1 in 3 tests performed on what was presumed to be the biological father, actually showed no relationship. While this information might sound shocking or abnormally high at first glance, it is probably quite reasonable. Parents that are compelled to seek out and submit to DNA testing do so because there is already an element of doubt regarding the child’s parentage. Most families don’t have any doubt as to the parentage of the child and never seek out paternity testing. Hence out of all the individuals that get tested there is a higher probability than an average non-tested family that the biological father may not be identified correctly by the mother.

What is more food for thought though is that the company was free to release this statistic. Obviously there is no personal information attached to this news release but it raises some questions that you might want to consider if you are looking for testing services of your own. Click for more (more…)