Alienated fathers' rights groups and the paternity testing industry are responsible for urban myths about paternity fraud, a university study has found.

Professor of Sociology at Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology, Michael Gilding, said figures suggesting that up to 30 per cent of paternity tests showed that the nominated father was not the parent of the child in question were based on unreliable sources or studies. more...

MOTHER DENIES SHE MISLEAD ON PATERNITY

West Australian News, by Roy Gibson, 20th May 2005

The mother of three has denied in court that she deliberately mislead a man into believing he was the father of her youngest child.

Kellie Gray 38 of Pinjarra told the District Court that she was shocked when DNA tests proved that her former partner 46 year old Rodney Macdonald was not the father of her son now aged three.

Ms Gray testified that she met Mr Macdonald in Northam in September 2000 and had a brief relationship with him.

Mr Macdonald of Kewdale is suing Ms Gray for damages on the grounds that she tricked him into believing he was the father of her son. He gave up a well paid job in Kalgorlie to move to Perth and have regular contact with the child. more...

Husband makes cheating wife pay for time spent raising lover's child

The London Times, London, U.K., from Adam Sage in Paris, May 3, 2005

A FRENCHMAN has won a ground-breaking ruling against his former wife and her lover, ordering them to pay back the money that he had spent on bringing up a child he had mistakenly assumed to be his own.

The man, named as G in the ruling, was awarded €23,000 (£15,600) after a DNA test revealed that he was not the father of the 13-year-old child, Astrid.

He had raised her as his own daughter, paying for her food, clothing, toys, schoolbooks and holidays, the Caen Appeal Court in Normandy said. It added that his former wife, B, from Cherbourg, had always had doubts about the identity of Astrid's father: she was unsure whether it was her husband or her lover. more...

The Globe and Mail
Canada's national newspaper

Mommy's little secret

As we gather to mark the festive season, here's one juicy morsel mom won't be dishing up: that guy you call your dad may not be. DNA testing has revolutionized medical science, CAROLYN ABRAHAM reports, but it also has uncovered the myth of female monogamy. Now doctors are wondering how to break the news to men

By CAROLYN ABRAHAM, Saturday, December 14, 2002 – Print Edition, Page F1

They came to the hospital together, a husband, a wife and the little daughter they feared had been cursed by inheritance. Since birth, she had struggled to breathe, and all the signs pointed to cystic fibrosis.

If the girl truly had the incurable disease that clogs the lungs, she had to have received two copies of a CF gene, one from each parent. Tests at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto confirmed the family's worst fears -- and then some.

The girl was indeed afflicted. Her mom carried one of the culprit genes. But her dad, the doctors discovered, was quite a different story. His DNA showed no sign of a CF gene, which means he is not a carrier and he is not her dad. more...

ABC News ( U.S.A.)

Duped Dads
Men Fight Centuries-Old Paternity Laws

By Geraldine Sealey ABC News

Oct. 2, 2002 — "Is it yours? If not, you still have to pay!" That statement, plastered on a New Jersey billboard above a picture of a visibly pregnant woman, is enough to make many male motorists slow down in rush hour traffic.

Patrick McCarthy, president of New Jersey Citizens Against Paternity Fraud, the group sponsoring nine of these billboards across the state, says he's just trying to prevent the victimization of other men.

Three years ago, McCarthy found out he was not the biological father of his then-15-year-old daughter. Though divorced from her mother for well over a decade and not intimately involved in her life, McCarthy paid child support for the girl. more...

Fathers fight paternity fraud by Kathleen Parker
Townhall, 24 Feb 2001

States Consider Laws Against Paternity Fraud
Child Advocates Worry About Effects
Washington Post, by Robert E. Pierre, 14 Oct 2002

Nondads bearing DNA proof left to pay by Davis veto Victims of paternity fraud had hoped bill would end support obligations. by Jenifer B. McKim

Orange County Register, 13 Oct 2002

House bill would penalize mothers who misidentify fathers by Breanna Shepherd

Orange County Register, 3 Oct 2002

Duped Dads- Men Fight Centuries-Old Paternity Laws by Geraldine Sealey

ABC News, 2 Oct 2002

Davis vetoes tests to ID dads PATERNITY: Men forced to support children not their own say bill would have offered relief. They vow to fight on. by Jasmine Lee

Daily Breeze, 28 Sept 2002

State reform plan fights rising paternity fraud by Thompson & Sacks

Detroit News, 25 Sept 2002