of course he never asked

[SueEllen]

Strangelove Mater, a midwife in the late 40s & early 50s, related tales of this happening back then.

She wasn't a great fan of the tv programme.

To be fair if the TV programme was like the book, no-one would watch it.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Reminds me of an episode in Call The Midwife.

Strangelove Mater, a midwife in the late 40s & early 50s, related tales of this happening back then.

She wasn't a great fan of the tv programme.

[vetran]

The people who use a DNA clinic are self-selecting as in that they suspect that the child isn't theirs.

Or researching their ancestry. But they seem to be in the right ballpark.

actual figures seem to be 1-30% of paternity fraud.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...lished%20today.

Their review of estimates of so-called paternal discrepancy over more than 50 years suggests the father was not the natural parent in between 1% and 30% of cases.

Studies based on populations not being tested for paternity suggested a 3.7% rate, said the authors, but accurate figures were needed for Britain, where about a third of pregnancies are unplanned and one in five divorces cites infidelity by one or both partners.

Unless you live in Nigeria where finding your prince seems common.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201904270063.html

[SueEllen]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...group-12399580

The people who use a DNA clinic are self-selecting as in that they suspect that the child isn't theirs.

[vetran]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...group-12399580

Almost half of UK men who take a paternity test turn out not to be the real father, new figures show.

Testing firm DNA Clinics, which is part of the Salford-based BioClinics Group, analysed 5,000 results selected randomly from between January 2014 and June 2016.

The results show 48 per cent or 2,396 of UK men tested were not the biological father. Fifty-two per cent, or 2,604, of those tested were proven to be the father.

For England as a whole, 51 per cent were ruled out as being the paternal father. In Northern Ireland, 42 per cent were ruled out while in Scotland the figure was 39 per cent.
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• BioClinics eyes Europe in pursuit of £2m turnover goal

[SueEllen]

Reminds me of an episode in Call The Midwife.

Ahh you've reminded me that's where I've seen the story in fiction recently.

However there are other people, both in the public eye and not in the public eye, who find out there dad is not their dad and in some cases their biological father is blatantly a different ethnicity. Lenny Henry is one where his "uncle" was actually his dad though his "uncle" and dad are the same ethnicity. Trisha Goddard, who use to have a talk show on ITV, was brought up by a white father who claimed her but her unknown biological father was black like her mum.

[jimguinan]

Proof a father's love IS blind.
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[xoggoth]

Reminds me of an episode in Call The Midwife.

[Fraidycat]

Not read the article but maybe there was a rogue ancester on one side or the other and sometimes random stuff turns up as a result?

The article says she went up to Shepherds Bush one evening for the B.B.C

And by that I don't mean the BBC thats located on Wood Lane in Shepherds Bush

[ladymuck]

Not read the article but maybe there was a rogue ancester on one side or the other and sometimes random stuff turns up as a result?

But, like SE, I just read the headline and thought he must just have been nice.

[vetran]

so why post it?

So only quoting part of my post trying to make your point is a bit sad.

If one of the people I have met with this issue decides to wash their dirty laundry in public its my business?

[jainnode]

I was challenging the suggestion he never asked. That isn't credible surely?

but its none of my business.

so why post it?

[vetran]

I just thought what a nice man.

And she mustn't have been too much of a brat as a kid.

I was challenging the suggestion he never asked. That isn't credible surely?

If he said oh yes I asked but decided to bring her up as my own there would have been no story. I have friends who have done this normally from previous relationships but I assume some people I have met have children from a similar situation but its none of my business.

[SueEllen]

I just thought what a nice man.

And she mustn't have been too much of a brat as a kid.

[vetran]

Georgina Lawton's parents were both white, yet her father never asked why she was black | Daily Mail Online

Proof a father's love IS blind: Georgina Lawton's parents were both white, yet her father never asked why she was black... only after his death did her mother confess she was result of a one night stand, writes FRANCES HARDY