DNA (do not accept?) Fatherhood
It is written — in the manner of unsubstantiated netlore on the importance of DNA testing — that studies show, "10 percent of children are actually the offspring of biological fathers other than the men they believe to be their fathers."
What does it mean to being a father if that is true? Actually, what does the DNA link mean to determining who is a father?
In Ireland, the biological father was granted the right by a court to keep the two lesbian parents of the child product of his sperm from vacationing in one of the couple's Australian homeland. On the other hand, an Los Angeles court commissioner took a (non) dad off the hook for $168,000 he owed in child support but wouldn't give him back the money he actually paid when a DNA test proved he wasn't the father he thought he was.
So there is unsettled legal ground for the fatherer. But what about the fatheree? What can of worms gets opened when a child selects who's his or her daddy?
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