I have always read i think in the old forum of cheating female spouses. Of how if a female is bored and tired of you she would not care. In this day and age females are so-called more liberal, thus the image of the poor homely woman waiting at home for her philandering husband sowing his oats at every passing vagina is over.
What's your guesstimate of the stats in the SG context? Higher or lower than 1 out of 4?
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Paternity shock begets push to test babies
Maxine Frith November 18, 2007<small></small>
MEN'S groups are calling for mandatory paternity testing of all newborns after revelations that one in four Australian men who submit paternity tests discover they are not the father of children they had believed were theirs.
About a quarter of paternity tests done by one of Australia's largest DNA laboratory companies show the man submitting the sample is not the father, compared with estimates of one in 10 "exclusions" a decade ago.
The number of paternity tests taken in Australia has doubled from 3000 in 2003 to more than 6000 last year.
Thousands of men are now turning to DIY testing kits, available over the internet, to discover whether they are the biological father while they are still in a relationship — without telling their partners of their suspicions.
Some have raised children to adulthood or paid tens of thousands of dollars in maintenance to the Child Support Agency before finding out the truth.
Sue Price, a director of the Men's Right Agency, said the deception was ruining people's lives.
"It is not just the men, it's the children who grow up thinking one person is their father and then find out it's someone else," she said.
"In the future, more and more health treatments are going to be based on genetic technology so it is going to be even more important to know who your biological father is.
"Mandatory testing would get rid of all these problems."
The DNA Bio Services lab now conducts more than 2000 such tests a year from the sale of its DIY kits.
New figures compiled for 2007 by the company show that one in 4.5 paternity tests exclude the man as the biological father — a record high since DNA testing began a decade ago.
"The increase is across all social classes and ages — it affects everyone," according to company director Gary Miller.
"Before, a lot of the work was for men who had been contacted by a woman or the CSA for maintenance and wanted a test to prove they weren't the father.
"Now we see a lot of men in a relationship or just out of one who are just looking for reassurance that they are the father and then find out they're not and are completely devastated."
Under Australian law, the family courts will order a paternity test only if there are reasonable grounds to doubt an estranged partner is not the biological father.
The CSA does not require proof of paternity beyond a birth certificate or a man's acceptance that he is the father. This means that some men pay tens of thousands of dollars in child support before finding out that they are not the father. Even if they have reared the children as their own, they are then denied any legal access rights.
But some experts say that the high proportion of negative paternity tests reflects the fact that the men coming forward already have suspicions. They maintain that across the wider population, only 1% of fathers are not the "real" parent.
But Professor Margaret Otlowski, deputy director of the University of Tasmania's Centre for Law and Genetics, said mandatory testing was not a good idea. "I can see the argument from the point of view of creating certainty about parentage, but it would stem from a very suspicious premise and there would be huge implications in terms of relationships."
When Steven Gillespie's girlfriend of just a few months told him she was pregnant, he was shocked but then overjoyed at the idea of becoming a father.
He moved in with his girlfriend and was present at the birth in 2004, cutting the umbilical cord. He had the baby's name tattooed on his chest.
It was only after Steven had split from his girlfriend that she told him that the little girl, then 2, was not his — a claim confirmed by a paternity test.
"I was absolutely devastated," said 46-year-old Mr Gillespie. "My whole family was affected. My parents had been delighted to have a granddaughter.
"For two years I … loved her and cared for her and now I don't have any rights to see her."
Dad's shock: 3 out of 4 kids not his
MIKE (whose name has been changed for legal reasons) brought up four children believing they were his.
The labourer from rural NSW was married for 10 years. He had three boys, now 14, 13 and 10, with his wife before having a vasectomy.
When his wife then fell pregnant, he believed the vasectomy had failed and accepted the girl, now nine. But when she again fell pregnant, in 2003, and had an abortion, the marriage fell apart.
Mike, now 39, was initially suspicious that only the youngest child was not his and used a DIY kit that proved he was not the father.
Within weeks, more tests showed only the eldest was his.
"I was totally shocked," he said. "I have lost my whole family and now
I only get to see my biological son."
This story was found at:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/17/1194767024558.html