The Ostrich Solution

It seems that a British study concluded about 4% of all children aren't genetically related to their 'fathers'.

Not surprising really. Women are afterall human beings too, and in the war of the sexes neither of us are known for being exclusively monogamous.

But the main article I link to makes the mistake of equating the information about the lack of paternity, with the consequences of mothers, fathers and kids finding out the truth. They even go so far as to advocate not performing the tests at all (I call this the 'Ostrich solution').

The problem of false paternity isn't that a genetic test will blow apart families - the problem of false paternity is that there is a false paternity!

Blaming the existence of the test for wrecking a family is like blaming the care-worker who brings you the test results that proves you have HIV. Sure without the test results you would still be in blissful ignorance of your situation, but is that better than knowing the truth?