Comments on: Paternity before birth http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/06/paternity-before-birth/ Fri, 24 May 2013 00:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Grey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/06/paternity-before-birth/#comment-43113 Grey Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:27:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16933#comment-43113 "Ultimately exact knowledge of paternity is probably going to be a force for “good” rather than mischief." Absolutely. The damage done at ground level by the (far greater) number of men who suspect "their" children may not be theirs compared to the number where it's true is huge. A lot of the nastiest anti-child violence has that root. On balance a very good thing indeed. “Ultimately exact knowledge of paternity is probably going to be a force for “good” rather than mischief.”

Absolutely. The damage done at ground level by the (far greater) number of men who suspect “their” children may not be theirs compared to the number where it’s true is huge. A lot of the nastiest anti-child violence has that root. On balance a very good thing indeed.

]]> By: Sister Y http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/06/paternity-before-birth/#comment-43112 Sister Y Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:30:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16933#comment-43112 <i>we don’t need to rely on instinctive heuristics when the truth can set us free</i> This implies that genetic paternity is a completely proper means of assigning legal paternity. This is no longer a fringe issue for angry misogynists, e.g. http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/roiphe/2012/06/unexpected_pregnancy_should_a_man_be_responsible_for_supporting_a_baby_he_didn_t_want_.html we don’t need to rely on instinctive heuristics when the truth can set us free

This implies that genetic paternity is a completely proper means of assigning legal paternity. This is no longer a fringe issue for angry misogynists, e.g. http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/roiphe/2012/06/unexpected_pregnancy_should_a_man_be_responsible_for_supporting_a_baby_he_didn_t_want_.html

]]> By: marcel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/06/paternity-before-birth/#comment-43111 marcel Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:05:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=16933#comment-43111 I suspect that "caustistical" is a typo, but I cannot figure out what it is supposed to be. Please clarify. I suspect that “caustistical” is a typo, but I cannot figure out what it is supposed to be. Please clarify.

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