Are you sure you are the father of your child?
Mar 29th, 2008 by Lilian
Well, now, insecure fathers can rest easy. All it takes to find out is just twenty bucks of home paternity kit. You no longer need to wonder if your wife or girlfriend has been screwing around. You do not have to wonder if you have been dupe to eat dead cat.
I read that they have home paternity kit on sale at the nearest pharmacy. It is claimed to be 99% accurate too.
According to the directions, you take a cotton swab and rub it inside the child’s mouth. That will provide enough DNA for the test. The man who may or may not be the father has to do the same. After you collect the DNA and send it in, it takes three to five days for the test to come back, and you can even go to a confidential Web site and get the results.
The big question is of course, how accurate is the test? You really wouldn’t want to be wrong about this. Well, according to an expert we interviewed, these tests rely on around 15 markers, and that makes it pretty accurate. If you are able to collect the child’s, the potential dad’s and the mom’s DNA, the test is 99.9 percent accurate. With just the child’s and the potential dad’s DNA, it is closer to 99 percent accurate.
Now, I wonder how is the father going to get the child to open the mouth to get the DNA sample, if the child is much older? I mean, if he does it, he would be doing it without his wife knowledge right?
Oh well…people do the weirdest thing, don’t they?
(quotes taken from CNN Health, article by by Dr. Sanjay Gupta Chief Medical Correspondent)