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Surprise! 1-in-25 Dads Not the Real Father
www.LiveScience .com ^ | 8/10/05 | LiveScience Staff

Posted on 08/15/2005 12:50:43 PM PDT by aimhigh

About 4 percent of men may unknowingly be raising a child that really belongs to the mailman or some other guy, researchers speculate in a new study.

Here's the real news: With modern methods, the truth will become known more frequently.

Researchers pawed through a host of scientific articles published around the world from 1950 through last year. The perceived "paternal discrepancy rate," as it is called, ranges from less than 1 percent to as high as 30 percent in the various studies. Most researchers believe the rate is less than 10 percent.

The author's settled on four percent -- one in 25 families -- in a new article in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cuckoldry; fatherhood; parents; paternity; paternityfraud
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To: martin_fierro

Thats so real its spooky. Good one.


21 posted on 08/16/2005 4:54:55 AM PDT by Khurkris (Ain't life funny?)
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To: bjcintennessee

50% of all schoolchildren are below average in math.


22 posted on 08/16/2005 11:37:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)
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To: aimhigh

Terrible.


23 posted on 08/17/2005 11:50:29 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Jeff Chandler
>>>50% of all schoolchildren are below average in math.

5 out of 4 people have issues with fractions...

and there are 10 kinds of people...those who understand binary and those that don't...
24 posted on 08/18/2005 12:37:32 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Liberals...they're so quixotic...)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Oh, baby.

Not even close.

:)


25 posted on 08/18/2005 7:03:49 AM PDT by Ocracoke Island
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