And a good chunk of the 96.3% just wish it was.
TIL 3.7% of women are skanks.
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The headline is misleading. The actually statistic given in the article is “between 1 and 3.7%”
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Do you really have to jump to “women are skanks”? Some people are just so excited to throw out a slur when they think they can get away with it, eh?
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Some frequently cited statistics—that cases of wrongly assigned paternity make up between ten and thirty per cent of all births—are misleading, since they are often based on data from tests requested by people who already have doubts about paternity. When the data are based on studies done for other reasons (for example, to look at inherited predispositions to conditions like cystic fibrosis), the rates of misattributed paternity come in at between one and 3.7 per cent.
That answered my question, quoted in case it answers others’, too.
That makes me feel strangely better about trust. Even those who were convinced the father of their child was someone else, it was only the case 1/10 to 3/10 of the time. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t infidelity, but I thought the numbers would be higher.
I do personally think that trust shouldn’t be necessary in a system as important as parental rights and birth. The hospital should do a mandatory paternity test before any paperwork is signed, just to eliminate any doubts of responsibility and possible infidelity.
Guess that would put Maury out of a job though.
3.7% seems low
It would have been nice if they attributed this number to particular study. But they just said vaguely some studies
Look around at work tomorrow. See 20 people? 1 of them is wrong about who their father is. That’s low?
See 20 people?
The math nerd in me needs to let
the world3 people in Lemmy know that it’s actually 1 in 27 people.
Most women remember who put a dick in them, and when.
Why is it always the paternity that’s questioned? Why does no one ever demand a maternity test to see who the real mother is??
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Tbf it’s worth asking if you are looking at a baby’s phenotype and wondering if your partner was unfaithful. Mix-ups happen sometimes and it’s possible that the hospital gave you back the wrong baby
Hopefully since covid forced a lot of hospitals to shut down their nurseries and switch to what’s called “rooming in” where a baby stays with mom pretty much at all times, this happens less than it already did.
Heck, I’m just out in podunk Oklahoma, where we are a bottom 10 state for women, but even here, the hospital we picked to have our kid does all procedures in the room right where you can see after baby is born, and hands them right back to mom. They never leave you (unless you elect for a circumcision for some god awful reason), which is a huge relief for me. I was gonna be ripping out that epidural and catheter so fast to follow my fucking infant if they took him from out of my sight for even a minute.
That’s cool and it makes a lot more sense to me. Unless there’s some major complications with the birth it seems like you could handle everything in the same room. But I’m not a midwife so what do I know?
I mean… The child never saw who gave birth to them, so there’s that…
