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By: Jane Bear

Any man could simply claim that is his child and it was lawfully binding for their heritage several years ago. Today nothing seems to be impossible with the advent of the new era in science and technology. Detecting a fingerprint, a person lying, and even determining the father of a baby through paternity testing are all impossible decades ago but with the help of the state of the art innovative designs and high tech gadgets nowadays, everything is made possible.

Paternity testing does not only help in finding who the real father of a child is, cases that involve child claims or when a mother's fidelity is in question, pregnancy and rape can also be solved especially nowadays where rape cases are high. There are a lot of reasons to perform paternity testing, but each reason can vary in different circumstances.

Depending on what kind of test that needs to be performed and the level of investigation, the cost of testing ranges from affordable to very expensive. Also, depending upon the category and size of the samples to be tested, costs vary from lab to lab. You have to make sure that an external body accredits the lab; and you should also know the percentage error of that lab, and the degree of certainty the lab offers before you hire your lab to perform your DNA paternity test. Some poorer quality labs may guarantee only 98% certainty while some expensive labs offer a 99.9999% accuracy which can be a big difference.

But some paternity tests are affordable. Home paternity tests are not hard use and inexpensive. Performing a legal paternity test is easy and harmless without having any displeasure to anyone involved. It can be performed in the your own home through a paternity test kit, which provides complete equipments that are needed such as swabs, forms, and containers.

A buccal swab is used from the inside cheeks in order to obtain DNA samples of each party involved. The child and the alleged father need to be tested, and it might be benefited to test the mother as well. The samples are then collected, labeled, and then sent to a laboratory for DNA analysis. Then the results are sent back to you as soon as the results come out.

DNA paternity testing is the comparison of the DNA samples of a child, a man, and in some cases along with the mother. Each one of us has 23 pairs of chromosome, half of it we inherit from our mother and half of it from our father. If a match is found between a child and a man, without a doubt he is the biological father. The DNA of the mother can help in testing by removing the mother's DNA from the equation.

There are some who perform paternity testing before the baby is born for legal issues or physiological reason such as in cases of rape. It may be beneficial to perform prenatal paternity test in cases of multiple partners to begin a proceeding for medical bills and support. Prenatal paternity testing is done before childbirth and depending on the way you choose, determines when the test is performed. You can choose between amniocentesis and blood samples. Although there are risks involved when performing amniocentesis like injuring the fetus or aborting it and other different risks.

A family can find out right away if there is a biological relationship between a child and a father with paternity testing. The most crucial thing about getting the results of the test is that you will finally know once and for all know whom the real father of the child is. And perhaps the most painful emotional thing is that when you finally realize that you are not raising your own child.

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