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Determining the paternity of a child was once a very complicated process, involving intrusive blood tests and many weeks of laboratory analysis. The accuracy of the results could also be questionable, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would mandate hospitals offer genetic testing to confirm the paternity of babies who are born to unmarried couples. Reps. Melanie ...

Maury Povich — the renowned TV host known for revealing the results of paternity tests on his show — has taken his shtick a step further by launching his own at-home DNA paternity test company. The ...

As Barnard professor Nara B. Milanich reveals in her fascinating, frequently jaw-dropping book “Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father,” the question of “true” parentage — and often, by extension ...

Washington hairdresser Andre Chreky gladly agreed to a DNA test when a former employee hit him with a paternity suit. The claim was absurd, Chreky said he remembers thinking. He had stopped dating the ...

When Nara Milanich wrote Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father—a history of the scientific, legal, and social conceptions of fatherhood in Western civilization—she wasn’t expecting that her ...