According to Dr. Jeanette Papp, director of genotyping and sequencing at the University of California, Los Angeles, human genetics, 15% of children born in the Western world are victims of paternity fraud. Statistics from the United States, Australia and other countries show that approximately 30% of all paternity tests exclude the alleged father as a biological father. Paternity fraud is a false indication of a person being the biological father of a child specifically for the purpose of collecting maternal support or caring for a mother’s child when she knows or suspects that he is not a biological father. In cases of paternity, frad is a deceived person, a child who is deprived of a relationship with his biological father and a biological father who has no relationship with his child.
These figures are based on tests performed in cases where the prospective fathers are not biological survivors of the child-subject and do not provide a complete picture of such cases among the general population. Currently, more than 300,000 such tests are conducted every year. Since it is undoubtedly that these paternity tests were done without background, almost certainly including the payment of alimony, there are more than 90,000 men who were falsely accused of paternity every year. About 4 million children are born every year in the United States, of which 1.2 million men are victims of paternity fraud every year. Thus, it can be assumed that the greatness of these deceived people is enslaved by the courts and the mother, in order to support these children for at least 18 years. Therefore, today, up to 21 million men by marriage or courts pay most of their income for children, they have no biological connections.
Steve Scherer, a senior fellow at the Department of Genetics of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, estimates that 10% of children born in Canada are victims of paternity fraud. A scientific seminar held in November 2002 for Canadian judges in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, also led 10% of paternity cases as a group of medical experts. The Canadian Council for Children's Rights claims that paternity fraud is 15%. According to a study by Dr. Judith Eva Lipton, a psychiatrist with a Swedish medical center in Washington, between 30 and 50 percent of women cheat on their partners, compared with 50-80 percent of men. In other statistics, this number is about 60% for both sexes. In a national survey of 5,000 women surveyed in Scotland in 2004, it was reported that 50 percent of women said that if they got pregnant by another person but wanted to stay with their partner, they lie about the child's father.
Articles 7, 8 and 9 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNMF) (1989) state that a child should have the right to be raised as biological parents, who must be properly identified at birth and require so that the state registry of births contains an accurate record of the identification information of both biological and social parents.
Proper identification of the child is necessary because it will provide information about genetic and other medical diseases for the whole life of this person.
With the development of DNA testing methods, authentic identification of the parents of the child has become more feasible. Thus, during registration for the birth of a child, DNA profiling may be emphasized.
