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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The annual ritual of Father’s Day has come and gone, and retailers are projected to be a record $16 billion richer for it. But paternity provides an enticing commercial opportunity all year round, in ...

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 ...

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 ...