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"What's urgently needed, the authors say, is guidance on how and when paternal discrepancy should be exposed."

No; actually what is urgently needed is a return to responsibility, family, God and commitment to one mate, not a multitude of recreational relationships!

The underlying problem with nearly every "family" I work with is no firm foundation. Many of the parents come from broken and dysfunctional homes, the moms have 3 or 4 kids with as many different fathers...sometimes known and sometimes not, fathers who either don't know or don't care that these children exist. Virtually all of these children are diagnosed with some personality, developmental or behavioral pathology. You think things are bad now....just wait until this generation (rapidly becoming the majority) comes of age. They are like trees without roots who will never bear fruit. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that they will never reproduce.

You think things are bad now....just wait until this generation (rapidly becoming the majority) comes of age. They are like trees without roots who will never bear fruit.

My uncle worked in a prison. He told me that most of the inmates came from fatherless families. In some of the cases, the parents had divorced but in most cases the parents had never married. He said this years ago, way before sociologists concluded that kids do best in two parent families.

The rest of us have to get off our high horse and start being judgemental about illegitimacy. It's bad for the entire society.

just wait until this generation (rapidly becoming the majority) comes of age. They are like trees without roots who will never bear fruit.

I disagree. Ultimately you personally "make" who you are, not your bloodline. (Or even your parents)