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30% of dads don't realize they're raising someone else's kid ...

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Originally posted by: iamme
Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech
Originally posted by: iamme
my son is a splitting image of me when i was a kid, so i'm pretty sure i'm in the 70% 😛
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Same here with me. My daughter is 100% spot on with traits similar to mine. The UPS and FedEx guys don't look anywhere near me, so I feel safe proclaiming that I'm in the 70% population. 😉
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lol :laugh:

"hey daddy! the mailman and me have the same birthmark! isn't that cool!" :Q
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lol
 
what do you mean?

30% of all fathers have kids that arent biologically theirs

or

30% of fathers with kids that arent biologically theirs arent aware of it


i would belive the latter, not the former
 
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
what do you mean?

30% of all fathers have kids that arent biologically theirs

or

30% of fathers with kids that arent biologically theirs arent aware of it


i would belive the latter, not the former
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now that, i could believe.
 
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
what do you mean?

30% of all fathers have kids that arent biologically theirs

or

30% of fathers with kids that arent biologically theirs arent aware of it


i would belive the latter, not the former
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the statement was: "30% of dads out there don't realize they're raising someone else's kid"

heard it on House (great show - full of factual information... so we think... I have no reason to doubt that bit though - think about all the incompetent broken families out there. Is 30% really that high ?) It's high enough to raise a brow, but not high enough to discredit immediately.
 
Originally posted by: gsellis
Made up statistic.
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I guess I should do it before anyone else does... X% of statistics are made up on the spot.

I actually thought twice about indicating where I heard this. People here are so afraid of appearing gullible that they instantaneously doubt anything they see. I don't have any reason to doubt this statistic, is what I'm saying.
 
Originally posted by: shuan24
you mean like this?
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lol, been saving that picture for just such a thread i bet

I seriously doubt they could measure such a statistic. Whether or not the father knows is irrelevant, it's simply a matter of where they obtained their data. I'd stake money that they just looked up the public record of paternity cases and saw that 30% of all cases showed this 'pattern', if they even did that much research. In order to accurately and properly test this, they'd have to take a significant sample of random parents from multiple states/regions and do DNA's tests in 2 different testing houses, which would be insanely expensive.
 
I remeber reading an article in the early '90s about some DNA testing done at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. The study was using the (then) new technology of DNA testing to look at heridity diseases. Of course this would require DNA samples from both parents and the children.

As a side result of this study, they found that 16% of the children were not the biological offspring of the declared father.
 
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