Thank(hands)ful

A misdirected Australian "father's rights" group is demanding mandatory DNA testing for every child born ... building on the company that makes the tests claim that one-quarter of all fathers who do the test find they are not the child's biological dad.

But only a tiny bit of dadding is about biology. Dads earn their thanks by being there. Most recently, Philip Allison delivered his new daughter Hannah outside the East Yorkshire Women and Children's Hospital because none of the staff could be troubled to join or help them in their friend's Renault when the 7lb 14oz child began to pop her head out to take her first look at the world.

** If it were just about biology wouldn't you have to spend your life mourning all the sperm that never match up with an egg? **