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There is a joke currently doing the rounds on Whatsapp about a couple who got divorced after more than 20 years of marriage.
The wife sent this message: -“am sorry to inform you that the girl you thought was your daughter is not. It was someone who impregnated me.”
The husband replied, “oh, thank God. I am now free from the guilt of incest. Please ask her to come and see me. I would want her to take over from you.”
The above is one of the reasons why many persons are happy that the science of determining whether man is actually the father of a child DNA- can be done locally. Hitherto, such tests were done outside the country. The cost of DNA tests in Ghana range between GH1,000 to GH1,500. Over the past 10 months, results of %90 of DNA tests carried indicated that those alleged to be the fathers were not. 10% of the results indicated that the men were indeed the fathers as alleged by the women.
One of the men who benefited from the DNA test proving he was not the father told the Daily Dispatch, “I was told by the court to take care of the pregnancy till the lady delivers. Then we conduct the DNA test. If the test proves I am not the father, I could sue the woman to recoup my expenses.”
Asked whether he intended to sue, he replied, “my brother, no. I am happy that I would not have to take care of someone else’s child, to be told years later that he child is not mine.”
Dear readers, please advise yourselves.
Source: the daily dispatch
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Ewe Man,you are very funny.Your comment is rib-craacking
And I can’t find a hospital to get it done in this big country
please how much is the cost of having a DNA test done And also which hospital Can the text be done
Where there is smoke, there is most probably fire also. Most men who suspect that they are not the real fathers of babies have a reason to do so. Especially when the couples are not married.
Hmm.
For 90% to be negative makes me thing something else thou most dads aren't the biological ones but sometimes too the kid are being changed especially when u give birth at the public facilities so if only the woman is sure that the child is for the man she should also do DNA test since if the child was changed from the hospital it will both determine negative that u are both not the parents so that action is taken against the hospital. most times too the women try abortion and it will show to them as if the thing is terminated but yet it will still be there and when another man comes within the time of the abortion for s3x you may think he is responsible when you realize of pregnancy again which may be the same one you couldn't terminate well
this story is bogus, is it an avert for lab owners or news story.
I cant imagine the emotional bond I develop with my child only to be told years after that I am not the father. God help us all.
Can we 'humbly' know the number of tests that have been done over the study period???
This keeps happening because there is no consequence to the women involved. If they were made to refund every dime the man spends on the child he later discovers is not his, they would think twice.