Committing paternity fraud is a far more common crime than people realise. It’s an offence under the Fraud Act 2006 although the Crown never prosecutes women for it, what are the chances? Since we launched J4MB as a political party in 2013, we’ve called for compulsory paternity testing at birth. In our last general election manifesto we explored the issue over pp.48-50.
We recommend Rick Bradford’s (William Collins’s) 2018 paper Database of Sources for Mispaternity Rates.
Our thanks to Douglas for this. He writes:
“I have often talked of the fact that in the UK, among those specifically taking part in genetic testing and naming their genetic father, who then also took part, one in seven of the child/father pairs were found not to be related. What the actual instance is in the UK for ‘misaligned paternity’ (to give it its common cover name) cannot be known because a father may not legally test for genetics without the mother’s approval. That would indicate a higher ratio of ‘paternal discrepancy’ (another of the euphemisms) than 14% but the only credible report on the subject I’m aware of is Bellis et al.in 2005 where they concluded the figure is about 4% in Britain.
Not that 4% isn’t bad enough. Imagine the outcry if even half a percent of women discovered the child they went home with from the hospital was not theirs!
In 2024 Nigeria’s figure soared to 27% I missed it at the time but a couple of weeks ago, the latest report is out and some people in the UN are cheerily saying things like ‘see, it is not so bad now’ because the figure has been adjusted to a mere one in four children being the result of a cuckolded man.
I know that some in the MRM don’t see this as an issue for the men’s movement to shout about: it is, after all, men who are doing the cuckolding. Personally, I look at it from a social cohesion viewpoint and from what is in the long-term interests of children in a modern medical world where so much can be predicted and prevented based on genetic heritage. And in the UK, of course, it is just another example of women legally gate-keeping bad behaviour at the cost to men and children.”
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Given the ease with which sampling can be done and the huge spread of DNA sampling through all the family history sites and organisations it is clear any embargo has nothing to to with the process of testing and everything to do with the resultant information. There is a sort of catch 22 for “government”, for if testing became routine and the estimates (even the most modest) were proven accurate. Well the prospect of extracting “child support” would get much harder. Particularly as it can be expected that these effects will be most marked in the “chaotic families” that already are a huge drain on the public purse. I notice that in some US cases the judgements boil down to “somebody has to pay, so the named father has to pay no matter he isn’t the father, because otherwise the tax payer may face a bill”. At least this is an honest statement of why paternity fraud isn’t treated as seriously. Here the fig leaf of “invasive” process gets smaller as every Tom dick or harry can (like my adult offspring have) send a little saliva off and find all manner of relatives for a few pounds. At least if the Mens Rights movement boxed in the authorities to admit that not testing is because of fears that the welfare bill would spiral, well we’d know “fathers” are simply wallets to public policy.
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