Why parental DNA tests are important

[ladislav]

There was one expat who was visiting his GF ( not a bar girl) in Cebu regularly and of course, doing his thing with her. He would then go back to the US to work, sending her an allowance.
Then, the girl announced that she was pregnant. Overjoyed, he arranged for the childbirth, then began to support his kid ( and the mother).
However, after two years of visiting his GF and his boy, he became somewhat suspicious. The boy's hair was jet black. It shouldn't be in a Eurasian kid.
He asked the girl to have the child take a DNA test. She initially balked at it, but he insisted. The DNA came back " no match". He confronted the girl by email, and she stopped responding.
It turned out that while he was in the US working, she was doing some other boy and then passed the child onto the man.
These schemes and scams are so basic , brazen, and raw that one would not even think of people being able to pull them off. And they are also easy to uncover, which leaves both parties rather unhappy when it happens.
Dumb, dumber, dumbest. Both of them. Poor kid, though.

[Shemp]

Most of what makes humans different from apes is on the long X chromosome. Other chromosomes tend to control things at cell or organ level, where we resemble other animals. Girls have one X chromosome from each parent. Boys get their X chromosome from the mother and a tiny Y chromosome from the father. Thus girls temd to mix of mother and father, while boys tend to strongly ressemble mother and mother's father (maternal grandfather), with only a small resemblance to their own father. It is this not uncommon for boys to look nothing like their real father. Boys tend to pick up their personal character from the man or men who raise them, whether real father, step father, uncle, grandfather, etc.

[jerryrigged]

There was one expat who was visiting his GF ( not a bar girl) in Cebu regularly and of course, doing his thing with her. He would then go back to the US to work, sending her an allowance.
Then, the girl announced that she was pregnant. Overjoyed, he arranged for the childbirth, then began to support his kid ( and the mother).
However, after two years of visiting his GF and his boy, he became somewhat suspicious. The boy's hair was jet black. It shouldn't be in a Eurasian kid.
He asked the girl to have the child take a DNA test. She initially balked at it, but he insisted. The DNA came back " no match". He confronted the girl by email, and she stopped responding.
It turned out that while he was in the US working, she was doing some other boy and then passed the child onto the man.
These schemes and scams are so basic , brazen, and raw that one would not even think of people being able to pull them off. And they are also easy to uncover, which leaves both parties rather unhappy when it happens.
Dumb, dumber, dumbest. Both of them. Poor kid, though.

A dime a dozen scams like this you're right. Too bad for the kid though, you're right.