I dont know a lot about dna testing. Hence I ask here. I thought the mother, infant and father in question were to be tested...Again, any links I can read about this??
These over the counter DNA tests are really for guys, who have a suspicion that the baby/babies/child/children, teen agers may not be from his gene pool.
Assume that in your family: No one is blond, blue eyed and with a fair complexion. Also no males in your family have never been taller that 5’ 10” and never weighed more than 165#.
Now assume that your wife has presented you with three sons, who are blond, blue eyed and with a fair complexion. At age 10 they could play professional basketball due to their height or pro football due to their height and weight.
Also, as teenagers, they may have behavioral problems like alcoholism, drug abuse and problems with the police. None of these problems have ever happened in your family. So you decide to do a DNA tests on the teenagers in your family to see if they are your sons or the sons of satan.
So you buy 4 tests, one for each probable bastard son and one for you. You do the swab thing with each probable bastard son and on you. You send in the tests.
They come back that all 3 so called sons are related to each other and not you. They are real SOBs, sons of Satan!
A lot of unhappy marriages will be heading to the divorce courts with the not a daddy for the kids getting a divorce with no child support or spousal support. These tests aren’t legal, but legal tests will be waiting for the guys with money.
Now with these tests available, you don’t have to wait years. If you have suspicions, you can run the test on the new born asap and see if he, she, it are part of your gene pool.
These tests will do the dna idents on both male and female children.
One family lawyer, we know said that a lot of estates and wills may be modified even with adult children having to prove DNA identity to be included in the will. Refusal to submit to a DNA test might get them a $ in the will and nothing else. He is telling guys, who are suspicious about the DNA of their so called children, to buy the tests and get the results. If they show a problem, he will then help them get official tests run. He estimates about 10% of the births in California have another real father besides the poor sucker listed on the marriage and birth certificates.