[Feldkurat_Katz]

I'm trying to imagine a cuckolded husband requesting wife's permission.

American feminists would love such law.

[conservative cat]

It doesn’t say that they can’t do paternity tests after a baby is born. I would be P*SSED if some jerk was able to get them to stick a needle into my belly (increasing risk of miscarriage) because he had doubts. Wait a few months.

[fleagle]

So?

[dfwgator]

Finally, employers and insurance companies are to be banned from demanding genetic checks on workers or clients. This is a sensitive issue in Germany after recent scandals involving companies accused of spying on their workers.

You'd think it would especially be a sensitive issue in Germany considering their past history.

[Myrddin]

Secondly, paternity tests will only be carried out with the express permission of the baby’s mother.

There needs to be a corollary that there is no liability to support a child whose paternity is not proved. If the mother refuses the test, the father is immune until his paternity is conclusively proved.

[a fool in paradise]

Finally, employers and insurance companies are to be banned from demanding genetic checks on workers or clients.

But they claim it won't happen here.

[allmendream]

About 10% of people are not the child of the man who mommy said was the daddy.

Geneticists figured this out awhile ago as they would track down a trait through a family tree, about 10% of people were not the child of the man they called dad.

Paternity tests show about 30% of those that go in to test paternity are not the fathers. This is due to self selection bias. You usually don’t go in to test paternity unless you suspect there might be a problem. Yet of those that go in to test paternity, around 70% find out that they are indeed the dad.

The new “over the counter” paternity tests sold in drug stores must be making quite a few women nervous! ;)