Topic: DNA and paternity fraud (Read 355 times)

DNA test should be a most after the birth of a child because the high rate of paternity fraud is becoming too much this day's.
I was a victim of paternity fraud and I know how painful it was so heartbreaking, in my case the child was just 5 months and I decided to run a DNA test, but the mother of the girl said I will never run a DNA test on the little baby so I decided to run it without there notice and low and behold the child was not mine 0 paternity I was emotionally down and that is just for a 5 months child what if the child has grown to 10 or 15 years of age it would have been so bad for me.
So I will advise all men to run a DNA test when you feel the need to, don't let your woman blackmail you emotionally by saying you are wanting a DNA test because you don't trust her don't fall for that go ahead and run it every man deserve the right to know if truly the child his fathering is his or not.

While I agree, I don’t think it’s smart to do it out of the blue. This is because it can leave the other partner to think you don’t trust them (if it comes out that you’re the real father). I think it’s best to do the test if you have a good reason. Maybe you think your wife has been cheating and you see signs, or maybe there’s something about the kid that doesn’t add up.

Whether you are married or not, it is always better to do DNA test to confirm if the children that was called yours are truly from your own offspring. This is would be a good move if everyone decided to do DNA test for their children especially for their people that don't always stay at home always because of their nature of work. This have helped so many parent to know the truth and who is actually the parent of their child. It could scatter marriages but it is better for one to know the truth and the paternity of their children.

Before recent times, I don’t usually hear about DNA test on children to prove the actual father of the child. It is now everywhere and have Television Channels solely for the purpose of watching how paternity fraud have increased and how men should be careful with their sex partners. They should learn how to live a modest life with their spouses and not jumping from one lady to another because in the end, it’ll affect them psychologically. I wish they could be an end to this sooner than expected as culprits later confess and proves are further shown to them through the DNA test.

No. It cannot only happen to street girls. Women who are married and are even housewives can still do such. And the whole DNA test thing is almost always with married people because when you aren’t married, there may not be so much push to go do a DNA test. And coming back to claim the child is dumb if they knew the whole time but didn’t partake in their upbringing.

That is just the simple truth about the whole matter, for person not able to identify the father of who her child is, it means she of a very high infidelity and questionable character. DNA can't eradicate this completely because it nit people to control human being  but can limit some occurance as many will take caution with recent happening, DNA has reduced 75% of intended woman having the feeling of transferring another man child to the man they love due to material thing.


Op I stand to be corrected, but I want tell you that as much as woman is concerned except those that are not physically fit due ot illness no woman that don't know the father of their child right from the first day they have intercourse,  even if the woman have more than five man and has sex with them with certain time interval. The issue is the choice of woman selecting who to father their child due to financial stability of the man because they love more comfort that is the reason

All you have are causes of paternity fraud, but I will go with infidelity as a woman you are supposed to have just one partner, sleeping around with different men is highly dangerous as you can contact both curable and incurable diseased, infections and STDs,
I think every mother will know the paternity status of their children and maybe in done cases decided to lie to cover up,
We have seen many cases about paternity fraud here in Africa, I know a man who's wife confessed he wasn't the father of their child after 32 years and training him overseas,  I will talking to friend on this the other day and he said men are really suffering, he vowed that any kid his wife delivers for him he must surely take the child and run a paternity test, this not about you not trusting your wife , but to be sure of any kids you take

Apart from rear cases when a child is switched during birth, women are the real cause of pertarnity fraud. I mean, some of them already know that the child the man th y call thier husband is training isn't he's and wouldn't say a word and will allow you train someone else's child only for you to find out at a later on one that the child you spent all your resources on isn't yours. I know that cheating is not a gender related discussion and that both genders cheats and that's the fact both should it get to the point where a child is involved and you don't want the real father to o know?

It's gotten to the point when DNA should be made compulsory at hospital at the time of birth and the price subsidized so it doesn't become a serious problem after that stage.

While talking about child birth misappropriacies either In the maternity or tracing the childs biological root, the DNA technology was actually an excellent technology in such cases but due to the corrupted societies we finds ourselves where influential possessions of individuals are self judges sentimentally to keep justice and victories all by themselves, the hope for a reality truth by this DNA development is being contradicted in most cases of the poor standing before the rich in a state of time hoping that the DNA will provide the real fact.
There's just nothing that money can't do in as much as it can be manipulated.

I guess thing like this can only happen to some street girls who don't stay with one guy, and once pregnancy occur the guys will deny the pregnancy because they know the girl as a street girl and is only the DNA test that can bring out the real father of the child.

Many people have lose their life for this DNA test issues in some society because, the real owner of the child will not show up that he is the owner of the child base on it happen by mistake and the guy is not financially buoyant to be a father yet, and the girl can switch the child to someone that is financially buoyant but the real father can claim the child in the future through DNA test and it will affect the person that trained the child right from child birth.

OP the factor's you've enlisted are the true causes of paternity fraud. However DNA has helped a lot of people not to raise children that is not theirs, some too have raised children that is not theirs and later found out about the true paternity of that child.  but as a parent, its actually painful to raise a child that is not yours without knowing, and maybe in the later part of the years, you see somebody coming to clame with evidence a child you've raised with love and passion, telling you to your face that your not the legitimate father of that baby you've nurtured, the feelingvat that moment cannot be described.

This is only a problem in the US or any other countries that are giving their citizens easy access to illegal sexual intercourse and because of it, there are always bad consequences one of them is paternity fraud I can't imagine living in a place where you can't be sure of being a father to your firstborn baby without making DNA test first just after he is born and that would be a huge emotional damage for the father because he is expecting the child to be his while the mother knows the truth all along. I watched it on a show and those men that weren't suspect the child wasn't theirs were broken after knowing it. Thankfully we don't have this kind of problem here in our place since the women are even hard to approach without the consent of their father let alone having sex with them randomly.

For me I think DNA test should be made free by the government but only allowed by legally married couple's and not those who have issues of paternity out of wedlock.

Research has it that almost 60%-70% of kids that Nigerian parents are raising are not they biological kids and that rate is alarming and at that something need to be done to help save men from this partnenty fraud perpetuated by women of this generations.

Apart from the points that you have listed including infidelity, there is another major point that causes paternity fraud and that is: Money and being financially comfortable.

Some women actually consider somethings as the financial strength of the man to another whom they are sleeping with and can choose a wrong man as the biological father because he has financial strength and that they consider him to be able to take care of her children. This happens even in marriage where the woman is double dating against the husband.

However, the real test is for couples or people who are having issues with paternity to go for DNA test.

That good but before the blood test, what was used? Hehe. I am just curious to know because I know that at some point, there was no way to know except from looks of the child and the instincts of the parent. But like I said, it’s good we have a more certain way to tell the truth and it has exposed so many unfaithful partners who would have gotten away with it before now.

It's unfortunate that things like this happens in society because of the selfish nature of the mother who can't stay with one partner and in some cases they even know the actual father of the child but due to some selfish reasons best known to the mother they will carry the unborn baby to a different father
But with the help of DNA test the actual father will be discovered but it really unfortunate and this has lead to the breakage of so many marriage in our society

I really support paternity test in child custody and support because of the rise of paternity fraud lately.
In some cases, even the father didn't know that they raised a child of other men until they reach maturity, which is a heartbreaking moment for me.

Even this kind of case has made its way on television show (Lauren Lake's Paternity Court), it is a prove that this matter has become a trend for this past decade (Lauren Lake's Paternity Court is first aired on 2013 for seven seasons)

Sometimes when I hear about the mistakes people make by given another person's child to someone else claiming that it was an accident or a mistake just make me think twice because this kind of things are not supposed to happen.
As a woman, it is important they observe their body and know what they are doing correctly so that their will not be a mistake of carrying another person child given it to another person to take care of the child for no reason.

All this shit mistakes and confusion will be solved if the woman is using contraceptives or she always doing protected sex instead spreading her legs to various man without any protection. Is this some kind of fetish to feel the dick skin without protection?

This type of issue only show how these woman doesn’t care about the child when she got pregnant because it’s very easy to use a condom or pills before sex rather than raising child while you are not prepared to be a parents.

DNA tests are becoming popular in my country. This might be because of the high rate of infidelity among couples or because science has made the test cheaper. It is now common to see a middle-class family going for a DNA test if the male suspects any foul play. It is becoming very difficult to be faithful to one partner due to social media influence and societal pressure.

Women have been the main victim of this issue and I don't blame them sometimes. Women in our society have been subjected to so much pressure that they have to option but to engage in extramarital affairs. At home, she is been pressured to help contribute financially due to economic problems. And when she goes out to do business or get a job she will be under pressure to sleep with recruiters before she gets a good job. Customers will want to have sex with her before they patronize her goods or services. In some cases, these women have no option but to compromise. I will not support a woman who engages in extramarital affairs but it is important to hear her own version of the story.


Secretly swapping someone's child is evil and people found guilty of such crime deserve a harsh punishment. I am sure this act will be rampant in societies that give more priority to a particular sex. In my location families will gladly swap female children for male because society sees male children as superior.

But some women also deceive their husbands that they are pregnant and they go as far as pumping their stomach. After nine months they will go and buy or adopt a child claiming that the child belongs to the man. When a DNA test is carried out, it will come out negative.

I’m unsure if it’s an increasing trend. If anything, it should be decreasing due to the science advancements that enable DNA testing. Humans are like animals, you can’t control everybody, some people make unpredictable choices. If somebody is sleeping around & doesn’t know who the Father of their child is it just means they are a bad person. I don’t think as a whole it is increasing though.

There no way paternity fraud can totally be eradicated completely because most of our women now don't marry who dey love anymore and most of them marry because of the material things a man has and still sneaks out of the husbands house to meet the actual person they love and have sexual intercourse with them which can lead to pregnancy and in other for her to secure her marriage and continue to enjoy the wealth of the man they get married to, they claim to be pregnant for their prospective husband and leave it as a secret even till death and a lot them are aware of this that's why majority of our women don't buy the ideas of running a DNA test is being mentioned.

In this modern age a lot of things have changed, couples gets divorced over minor issues and faithfulness in marriages are becoming old school, people no longer adhere to the values of marriage, that is why a married person can be attracted to another person and go all out to have intimacy with them. Because of these trend a woman might not even know who the biological father of her child is because of multiple sex partners, and when the man starts to suspect, then he goes for DNA test to confirm.

For men who feel compelled to do DNA test to confirm the paternity of their child or children, out of respect for their partners should do so without her knowledge, if the result proofs that the child is not his, then he can confront her, if not, he'll let the matter to slide.

Prior to DNA testing, blood typing was the most reliable paternity test. Blood types are hereditary, so a child and parent having incompatible blood types can prove they're not really related. Unfortunately (well, fortunately for people needing blood transfusions), most blood types are common enough that having compatible blood types doesn't prove two people are related, so there was always uncertainty in such cases.

I have read stories about this happening sure, but I am not sure how often this happens within your society specifically for you to have the impression this may be a problem which needs to be tackled in a wide level.
Do we even have statistics on how often these unfortunate things happen between partners?
One should not forget we live in a digital era, where anyone with a connection to the internet can type down and send whatever they please and see how many people will believe on those falsehoods.

But in case anyone of you actually feel like checking on the DNA of your children and compare them to yours, then I would recommend you to do it in secret, do not inform your spouse, because obvious reasons. Her reaction to you wanting to do with a thing could be very telling by itself, but it would be not worth it to go through anything negative without some paper in hand to confirm your fears.

I sincerely hope neither of you goes through anything like that, it must be very painful and life changing.

It is a great thing that there’s DNA test. I am trying to imagine what people would do if it weren’t there; how they would know that they have an unfaithful partner. It is really heartbreaking that someone has a partner for so many years, get married to them, and one day finds out that the child he’s put so much effort into raising isn’t his. What’s worse is when there are a lot of children but none is his. I’ve heard of a story where that was the case, and I can’t imagine how the man felt about such gruesome discover.

It's just obvious that it's greed and shame that are the key drivers of paternity fraud. A woman not calculating her mensural circle is not a solid reason, that is just mere speculations that it could be a cause but even if a woman does not know her child's father, DNA test is there to provide that. But the fact that most mothers do not want to be disgraced or term "pregnant out of wedlock" they do all there best to put someone else into debt for nothing.

The world has become a very wicked place and events like this are true examples of how wicked people can be in order to defraud you or even put you in a condition that isn't favourable. Some time ago I heard a woman said she forced her boyfriend to claim a child that isn't his because she felt the guy was the only one who can truly take care of she and her baby.

DNA can be conducted from multiple labs, this way it becomes impossible for any of the partners to temper with the result of the DNA, what you said can only happen when the test is carried out I  just one hospital, most case will result to multiple results to avoid manipulation.

Time have advanced and people are smarter a d well informed than before so for sure, any attempt to crest deceit will always be quickly noticed and such attempts are swept under the carpet.

You have repeated same statement in first two pointers and third pointers doesn't occur frequently or its rare. I think we cannot stop this and the only way is to eliminate the root cause and we should avoid getting into this dangerous multiple partner stuffs and even if they donot should be with protection. I am not sure how people will accept this but I would say if people stick to one partner like they do in most of the South Asian countries we wouldn't see these sort of issues and feeling of betrayal.

I think these two points are same, it's needless separating them. If a woman is faithful, whether she had sex during or after her ovulation, any pregnancy that arises from the sex will be a responsibility of the partner that she is faithful to.

What is the cost of conducting an effective DNA test and how many average citizens can afford it in your country. Manipulating the DNA test is a secondary case that can be tackled by conducting the test in a different environment alien to both partners.

Since there is a means to go by in judging through the real owner of a child being born, we can always result for DNA test in doing that, but its such a pity that even in some areas where truth is far from being established in their endeavors, they will try to manipulate the DNA result and present a fake one through the influence of someone involved who is influential financially, truth is sometimes far away from any process we go through if we are not dealing with the right ones.

Paternity fraud is increasingly becoming a trend these days. Every day, we wake up to different news about paternity fraud, which is becoming worrisome. Why would people be so wicked or careless to do that?

Three major causes of the high incidence of paternity fraud are
1: The woman having multiple partners:  When a woman has sexual relationships with more than one partner within the same timeframe, this can lead to uncertainty about the biological father of the child conceived during this time.

2: The woman not understanding her menstrual cycle to accurately estimate the time of ovulation. Some women who have multiple partners and can't calculate their ovulation are not aware of who the father of their child is until a DNA test is done.

3: When a child is switched at birth.

People should desist from this because this act is harmful, and it has consequences like emotional pain for your partner, feelings of betrayal, and it also has a psychological impact on the child.