( Paternity issue (if the man is the biol...)Can Men Gauge Biological Paternity Accurately,Health

Paternity issue (if the man is the biological father of his child) has always been a topic of discussion, either as an idle gossip or as a detailed discussion by anthropologists. // A new study, by Kermyt G. Anderson (University of Oklahoma and the Centre for Applied Social Research) that would be published in the June 06 issue of Current Anthropology sheds new light a contentious issue. On how accurate are men's suspicions of whether or not they are a child's biological fathers?

It has been suggested in some studies that up to 10 percent of fathers are not the biological parents of their alleged child, but how this differs across cultures and to what extent men's paternity assessments reflect actual biological paternity is not well known. The author says that paternity confidence has important implications for a man's involvement with his children, since men are less likely to interact with and support children whom they do not believe to be theirs.

In his study Anderson compared the paternity test results for men with high confidence regarding their paternity to the results for men with low confidence hoping to determine how the perceptions of fatherhood correlate to the fact. He found that, men who were confident about their fatherhood undergoing the test were only wrong 1.7% of the time, meaning they were indeed the child's father more than 98% of the time. As compared to men who were in doubt about their fatherhood, specifically men who contested paternity through paternity tests were more frequently not the fathers of the child, in about 29.85 of cases. Meaning that more than 70 percent of the time, men who doubted their paternity were wrong.

Anderson also organized the data geographically, by breaking down non-paternity rates in different countries according to high and low paternity confidence. He found that among those for who paternity confidence was relatively high, actual non-paternity is highest in Mexico and lowest a
'"/>




Page: 1 2
Related medicine news :

1. Setting Standards: Benchmark Medical Tests to Gauge Accuracy of Medical Tests
2. Gentleness Of Surgeon Can Now Be Gauged Using New Device
3. Smallpox as Biological Weapons?
4. Biologicals Transfer Proposal between US and Indian Biotechnology
5. Novel Biological Pacemaker Under Construction for Weak Hearts
6. Biologically Women Are More Vulnerable To HIV Infection
7. Biological Clock Could Be Re-Set: Study
8. Gold Nanoparticles Are Good Detectors Biological Toxins
9. Sunglasses Can Really Pull a Fast One on the Biological Clock, and Set a Lag in the Build Up Of Jet Lag
10. Biological Basis for Homosexuality
11. Biological Basis Behind a Couch Potato