Family Values?

[JBeukema]

Geneticists, disease researchers, and evolutionary psychologists have known it for a while, but the statistic hasn’t gotten much air outside of the ivory tower. Consistently, they find that one in ten of us wasn’t fathered by the man we think is our biological dad.
Naturally, adoptees and stepchildren realize their paternal situation. What we’re talking about here is people who have taken it as a given, for their entire lives, that dear old Dad is the one who contributed his sperm to the process. Even Dad himself may be under this impression. And Mom, knowing it’s not a sure thing, just keeps quiet.

References: American Association of Blood Banks. “Annual Report Summary for Testing in 1999.” § American Association of Blood Banks. “Annual Report Summary for Testing in 2001.” Oct 2002. § Baker, Robin. Ph.D. Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex. HarperCollins, 1996. § Child Support Analysis website. “Misattributed Paternity.” 5 July 2004. [www.childsupportanalysis.co.uk ]. § Gallagher, Caoilfhionn. “In the Name of the Father? Legal and Ethical Dilemmas Surrounding ‘Accidental’ Findings of Non-Paternity.” Annual Conference 2003, Socio-Legal Studies Association at Nottigham Law School. [www.nls.ntu.ac.uk/slsa2003]. § Lucassen, Anneke and Michael Parker. “Revealing False Paternity: Some Ethical Considerations” Lancet 357 (2001): 1033-5. § Philipp, E. “Discussion: Moral, Social and Ethical Issues.” Law and Ethics of A.I.D. and Embryo Transfer. Ciba Foundation Symposium (Vol. 17), G.E.W. Wostenholme and D.W. Fitzsimons (eds.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, Excerpta Medica, North-Holland, 1973: 63-66.

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[whitehall]

Look at the president. We can't even get access to his birth certificate. Does he know who his real father was or is he content with a deadbeat alcoholic bigamist?