Paternity Fraud

By All Africa 07/09/19 “‘Paternity fraud: Three out of 10 Nigerian men are not biological fathers of their children,’ said the headline of the May 2019 story in the Vanguard.” Read the entire article: https://allafrica.com/stories/201907090572.html

By Nairobi News on 12/14/2018 “… Just weeks after his wife Diana Marua gave birth to their daughter, Heaven, reports emerged that Bahati secretly carried out a DNA test on the baby without his wife’s knowledge. …” Read the entire article: https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/chillax/bahati-confesses-to-conducting-dna-test-on-his-daughter/?fbclid=IwAR3X1v5uCFgl9YRO3G3CzRFMREL_lcyeuj4yTA0D1omVH3vhlgjplkOxIEI

By CBS on 10/12/2018 “… Florida law states that a child born into a marriage belongs to that marriage. Karpinski’s son was born when his mother was married to another man. The child is now 4 years old and under that law, the mother’s husband has the paternal rights of that child. …” Read the entire article: https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/10/12/father-loses-paternity-rights/

By Pulse on 09/20/2018 “… What is paternity fraud?Paternity fraud can easily be defined as when a father cares for a child he wrongly thinks is his own. Within the last couple of years, paternity fraud has been a hot topic on social media in Nigeria. …” Read the entire article: https://www.pulse.ng/gist/pop-culture/does-nigeria-really-rank-second-in-paternity-fraud-id8880003.html

By NY Times on 09/03/2018 “… I recently took a DNA test out of curiosity for the health information and couldn’t understand the result that I was 52 percent Ashkenazi Jewish. As far as I was aware, both my parents were from Jewish families going back as far as we knew. …” Read the entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/magazine/can-i-tell-my-brother-the-truth-about-our-paternity.html

By NT News on 09/2/2018 “… McCullough, 45, is adopted. He is the offspring of Carol Briggs, who gave birth to him at age 16 after a fling with a young man who had already left her hometown in Youngstown, Ohio, when she discovered she was pregnant. …” Read the entire article: https://www.ntnews.com.au/news/adopted-coachs-jawdropping-discovery/news-story/b9b01aa64feeb687271d1db821aadecf

By NY Times on 08/30/2018 “… To couples at the end of their ropes who wanted children but could not conceive them for medical reasons, Dr. Donald Cline was a savior of sorts, offering to match the women with sperm from anonymous men resembling their partners. …” Read the entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/fertility-doctor-pregnant-women.html?emc=edit_th_180831&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=581865020831

By The Very Well Family on 08/08/2018 “… Paternity fraud often goes undetected for years. Sometimes it comes to light after medical records reveal that the child cannot possibly be related to the man attributed as the biological father. In cases where paternity fraud has resulted in child support payments, the court is left to decide

By WFLA on 05/08/2018 “… A 5-year-old Florida girl is in the middle of a legal battle between her biological father and the man married to her mother at the time of her birth. …” Read the entire article: http://www.wfla.com/video/paternity-battle_20180508220425/1167665412

By Punch on 04/25/2018 “… The Applied Genetic Center at the National University of science and Technology  in Bulawayo, had reported that cheating spouses are reportedly approaching the Centre with bribes in unscrupulous attempts to get the officials to manipulate their children’s paternity results in order to save their marriages. …” Read the entire article: http://www.punchng.com/couples-bribe-dna-centre-to-manipulate-paternity-test-results/ The