Interesting stat
 

30% of all paternity tests show that the husband/boyfriend isn't the father of the kid.

Granted, it's likely much less overall as many couples don't question paternity that would likely bring the percent down quite a bit, but it's still an intersting statistic none the less.

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30% of all paternity tests show that the husband/boyfriend isn't the father of the kid.

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That's probably about what I would have guessed, since no one is having a paternity test unless the wife/girlfriend has been sleeping around a lot.

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unfortunately some people like to try an interpret this to mean 30% of all children born into relationships are the result of infedility which it doesn't mean at all.

I actually think this is somewhat low considering there was likely something to trigger the paternity test in the first place. Perhaps there is less cheating going on then guys think.

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I actually think this is somewhat low

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It seems reasonable if it includes suspected fathers who aren't in a relationship with the mother. Like when you see a daytime talk show with some chick who's guessed wrong multiple times about which one of her many partners was the one who knocked her up.

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90% of all statistics are made up

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unfortunately some people like to try an interpret this to mean 30% of all children born into relationships are the result of infedility which it doesn't mean at all.


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I like to interpret it to mean that all women are slutty whores.

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The flip side of the "most people don't have tests done" is that there are cases where paternity tests are done as a result of other routine tests done on the baby. For instance, Father is Type A, Mother is Type B, and Baby is Type O, or something similar.

I have no idea how frequent these cases are, but they do exist. Any way you cut it, there are still a lot of babies being raised by fathers wearing the horns.

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unfortunately some people like to try an interpret this to mean 30% of all children born into relationships are the result of infedility which it doesn't mean at all.

I actually think this is somewhat low considering there was likely something to trigger the paternity test in the first place. Perhaps there is less cheating going on then guys think.

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Right on the 1st paragraph. Very likely on the 2nd as that's an interesting angle to look at it from.

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I actually think this is somewhat low considering there was likely something to trigger the paternity test in the first place. Perhaps there is less cheating going on then guys think.

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Or that the women in question are 70% accurate in determining when they conceived and therefore whom to name as the father.

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i heard its more like 10 %