Some estimations tell that around 30% of children are not from their official fathers.. People are just unaware of amount of secretes seemingly happy marriages hold
Consumer DNA tests revealing misattributed parentage
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#12There was an interesting thread on reddit where people were sharing their experiences with DNA tests and their parentage/ancestry. I was surprised with sheer number of them being listed/shared there. I never considered DNA tests will have such a weird side effects. It's a fascinating to see how much science or scientific tests in future can lead to weird results (not that I'm condoning cheating or anything) - Thread…
Also in /r/23andme, lots of people finding out they have no Cherokee/Native American heritage after all.
Wait, high cheek bones doesn't automatically mean you have Cherokee heritage?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
The French government claims that fatherhood is determined by society, and not biology. That is a very unscientific law.
How is it unscientific?
Maybe anti-scientific would be a better term. The law explicitly prevents people from finding out information about themselves that is encoded into every cell of their being.
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#14I found an older half sister via one of these tests. The demotion from oldest to second oldest has been a bitter pill, but having a new older sister is pretty neat!
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#15Some estimations tell that around 30% of children are not from their official fathers.. People are just unaware of amount of secretes seemingly happy marriages hold
Ask the current husband what it's like to have a woman that barely puts out once a month because she finds him repulsive and secretly wishes to get together again with the alpha that seeded her children
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#16It's called Paternity Fraud and woman who steal years off a man's life by lying to him... should be tried in a Court of Law.
Between 2-12% of husbands are literal definition of the word "cuckold".
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#17You mean misattributed paternity. Misattributed parentage happens mainly to men. It's a much more involved process to defraud a woman of her child than a man.
I guess the two mechanisms that come to mind:
1. Drug and kidnap the woman, implant an embryo that isn't hers, and bring her back home without her finding out.
2. Switch the baby with another plausible-looking one in the hospital. (I have heard this happens more than one might expect. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-08-16/features/1998228... says "About 28,000 babies get switched in hospitals every year, temporarily or permanently, out of four million births", though "most mistakes are fixed before the baby leaves the hospital".)
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#18You mean misattributed paternity. Misattributed parentage happens mainly to men. It's a much more involved process to defraud a woman of her child than a man.
> It's a much more involved process to defraud a woman of her child than a man.
Misattributed parentage here is misinforming (intentionally or not) children about their parents. Misinforming supposed or actual parents (what you seem to be concerned about) may or may not be involved.
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#19You mean misattributed paternity. Misattributed parentage happens mainly to men. It's a much more involved process to defraud a woman of her child than a man.
I guess the two mechanisms that come to mind: 1. Drug and kidnap the woman, implant an embryo that isn't hers, and bring her back home without her finding out. 2. Switch the baby with another plausible-looking one in the hospital. (I have heard this happens more than one might expect. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-08-16/features/1998228... says "About 28,000 babies get switched in hospitals every year, tempor…
3. The mother is a genetic chimera whose womb has differing DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
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#20... “This generation right now and maybe the next 15 years or so, there’s going to be a lot of shocking results coming out. I’d say in 20 years’ time it’s going to dissipate,” she predicted. By then, our expectations of privacy will have caught up with the new reality created by the rise of consumer DNA tests.
This reminds me of a discussion in which people were speculating about things that would not exist in the future.
There were many candidates: cancer; hunger; racism; and so on.
By far the most insightful comment came from the person who said "privacy." I don't think most people are ready for that future; it's almost unimaginable.