Men’s lack of paternity certainty is a fundamental sex inequality. Modern DNA testing, if applied systematically, could provide gender equality in knowledge of biological offspring. The social construction of legal paternity has defied reason, common sense, and justice. That indicates men’s subordinate social and political position with respect to vital aspects of ordinary life.
False paternity or extra-pair paternity, defined as a man falsely believing himself to be the biological father of a child, covers about 5% of children in high-income Western countries. … Read the post social fundamentals: paternity uncertanty