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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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whoa!
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:50:44 PM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: aimhigh
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:52:01 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: aimhigh
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:52:54 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: aimhigh
researchers speculate No, they don't. Good ones don't, at least.
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:53:23 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: aimhigh
Dr to Blond: You're pregnant.
Blond to Dr.: Is there a test to see if it's really mine?
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posted on
08/15/2005 12:53:48 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Be a glowworm. A glowworm's never glum. How can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum?)
To: cripplecreek
To: aimhigh
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posted on
08/15/2005 1:06:37 PM PDT
by
Michael Goldsberry
(an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
To: hoosiermama
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posted on
08/15/2005 1:07:49 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: aimhigh
This is the price men pay for creating and chosing the sexually open women.
To: aimhigh
Thats why DNA tests should be mandatory at the delivery room.
Then the mother couldn't make the father feel guilty because it would be the law.
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posted on
08/15/2005 1:38:33 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: aimhigh
And possibly then some fathers that arent sure if the child is his or not would know for sure...
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posted on
08/15/2005 1:40:12 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: aimhigh
And 76.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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posted on
08/15/2005 1:46:25 PM PDT
by
bjcintennessee
(Don't Sweat the Small Stuff)
To: cripplecreek
Someone once commented to my grandmother that all seven of her children looked just like my grandfather....To which she replied..."Thank God! They don't look like the butcher, iceman, mailman ..."
To: hoosiermama
My dad was a milkman, one sisters dad was a garbageman, and the youngest sisters dad was unemployed. We do all have the same father.
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posted on
08/15/2005 1:52:21 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: aimhigh
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posted on
08/15/2005 1:52:53 PM PDT
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
To: SouthernFreebird
"This is the price men pay for creating and chosing the sexually open women."
I would love to know how to create a sexually open woman.
To: bjcintennessee
Really?!?!? I read earlier today that it was 42.9%!
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posted on
08/15/2005 2:44:54 PM PDT
by
RedBeaconNY
(Vous parlez trop, mais vous ne dites rien.)
To: SouthernFreebird
It is being to dawn on me that women are ever bit like we men. An historical revenge women are having with us, for centuries we had our fun and now its the women's turn. But, women have to admit,if the statistic is true, it is extreme cruelty to have children of other men in bounds of monogamy. It is a dagger into the heart of marriage as an institution. What can we expect from an age when people get special occasion cards from those they are in adulterous relationship with. More than fifty percent of marriages fail. How many of you are from broken marriages? I don't think most people in the dating scene even take the time to know a person before they sleep with them.
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posted on
08/15/2005 2:58:30 PM PDT
by
Kuehn12
(Kuehn12)
To: aimhigh
To: Ocracoke Island
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posted on
08/15/2005 9:31:09 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Even Tom Cruise would recommend that Cindy Sheehan take a Paxil." --PBRSTREETGANG)
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