Determining the paternity of a child was once a very complicated process, involving intrusive blood tests and many weeks of laboratory analysis. The accuracy of the results could also be questionable, ...

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Maury Povich — the renowned TV host known for revealing the results of paternity tests on his show — has taken his shtick a step further by launching his own at-home DNA paternity test company. The ...

When Nara Milanich wrote Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father—a history of the scientific, legal, and social conceptions of fatherhood in Western civilization—she wasn’t expecting that her ...

The Supreme Court in a ruling last week upheld the use of DNA test in a long-running paternity dispute, addressing the complex question of whether an individual’s right to privacy overrides the need ...