Posted on 05/12/2025 2:58:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Campaigners say the true rate of paternity fraud - the intentional misidentification of a child's biological father - remains unknown
Men are being left heartbroken after investing time, resources, love and energy into raising children they believed were theirs - only to find out it was all a lie.
This breach of trust not only impacts the men who were falsely led to believe they were fathers but also deeply hurts the children involved and others connected to the situation.
Paternity fraud refers to the deliberate misidentification of a child's biological father. One of the most shocking aspects of this issue is that no one seems to have a clear understanding of its true extent.
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How many men are unknowingly playing the role of father - oblivious that their lives could be shattered at any moment? The brutal reality leaves victims questioning their identities and feeling crushed - often wondering how they ended up in such a situation.
Statistics on the percentage of men affected by paternity fraud in the UK vary dramatically according to different studies. Figures vary, with a 2018 study from the University of Warwick estimating 3% and a 2021 study from the University of Oxford suggesting 1%.
Conversely, in one striking study by DNA Clinics, a subsidiary of the BioClinics Group in Salford, looking at 5,000 results randomly selected from January 2014 to June 2016, found that a staggering 48% of the men tested were not the biological father.
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“Women have been doing this to men since apparently-FOREVER!”
It may be possible that men are involved and also hold responsibility.
And she used to claim she was a conservative. Gold digging women are all the same.
This is in reference to women cheating on their husbands, getting pregnant, and not telling him. Sticking him with raising a kid that isn’t his...
Its so bad France banned it. Over here some states are looking at making it mandatory so some kid like that one in TN doesnt get thrown in jail and lose his job because of it. Feminism is fighting this tooth and nail to stop this.
I have an ancestor 12 generations back who was one of 4 “out of wedlock” children of a nobleman—the mother’s name is not known. At least the father looked after him. That was an ancestor of my paternal grandmother but she never told me about him. (Most likely she had no idea.)
In many states, if a an is married to the child’s mother, he is considered the father, with all responsibilities, whether he is biologically the father or not.
Your family tress gets destroyed by going back just a few generations.
That great-grandma was not as innocent as we thought, and neither was our great-grandpa who created his own family tree.
In France, paternity testing is illegal, unless you get a hard-to-obtain court order. maybe it will be illegal in the U.S.
Again, women are cheating, getting pregnant, and having their husband raise a kid that ain’t theirs. This falls on the women who are sticking men with the bill for their actions...
You assume wives don’t have affairs.
One theory why married women support abortion as much as they do is that they may want to terminate a possible “affair” pregnancy.
Elon Musk doesn't know how sex works? At his age, and situation, he really doesn't have any excuse for this. He can't possibly be that dumb.
How do you know it was her most fertile time?
I was referring to men who are not married to the child's mother, proved they are not the father, but are still required to continue paying child support.
I thought that would be obvious.
E. Pluribus Unum wrote: “There have been men who have proven a child was not theirs through genetic testing but the judge requires them to continue paying child support anyway because shut up.”
It’s also in the best interest of the state to do that since it means the state won’t have to pay for the child’s support.
In California, a woman has to name a father to get certain benefits. If a man doesn't appeal that in a certain time, he is considered the father. It doesn't matter whether the state notified him before the deadline.
There were also cases where a man paid child support until his child was 18, but wasn't allowed to see the child, and they only found out after the child would have turned 18, that the child was already dead for years.
Are there any sympathetic feelings for an innocent child who is growing up thinking a man is his father who loves him and then is dumped because he’s not the biological child?
“Statistics on the percentage of men affected by paternity fraud in the UK vary dramatically “
I recall reading, years ago, of a study by some British University or govt health department, back in the 50s, having nothing to do with paternity wherein they took blood samples of the people in a small town, Welsh maybe, and discovered along the way that some huge percentage of the kids could not have been sired by papa. If I recall it was like fifty percent.
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