Stat Monitor Repairman said:
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DNA evidence shows between 20 and 25% of all kids born have the wrong father's name on the certificate.
https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/9839/do-we-have-more-female-than-male-ancestors#:~:text=%22Citing%20recent%20DNA%20research%2C%20Dr,40%20percent%20of%20men%20did.%22You have 2 times as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This is due to 2 reasons: 1) some men historically had more than 1 wife- this explains a large part of that number but not all. 2) a large group of men had kids with women and the kids were then raised by other men (not the biological father).
There is argument about the number of misattributed Paternity. Of all paternity tests between 30-35%% come back negative. Which skews good sample data as people who are less likely to "know" who the father is are more likely to have these tests. Also skewing the data is the fact that a man in a relationship he thought was monogamous is also less likely to have a paternity test done. That being said the latter situation happens less frequently than the former.
What we are seeing though is that there are plenty of stories of kids doing ancestry testing for fun to discover that dad is not dad or that granddad is not grandad somewhere down the line as they get hits for relatives- cousins, half brothers, etc thay are nowhere on the family tree. There is a reason for the milk man/post man/door to door salesman trope.
Studies show in some countries misattributed Paternity is as low as 2%. Most of these studies rely on self reported data among women who will state whether or not they had multiple sexual partners at the time of conception and then get their figures from that. However women also underreport number of sexual partners as well as the incidence of cheating on self reported studies which rely on the honesty of the people surveyed.....so the reliability of those is questionable as well.
The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.....my 20-25% was probably high for todays numbers..... Although with how rampant baby mama situations are today who knows?
I can see the number possibly being lower- 7-15% would probably be a more reasonably conservative estimate.
However that being the case.....that is still a significant portion of the population who has no qualms over making a selfish decision for their own benefit that will have far reaching negative implications for another person's entire life.
Which is the realm where false harrassment claims falls into.
That being said- Men (and women) who use their positions of power to sexually harass coworkers or subordinates are awful human beings and deserve to have the book thrown at them.
However as has been said on here, the pendulum has definitely shifted whereas women felt like they had to WRONGFULLY put up with that behavior in the past, we are now at a place where the burden of proving innocence is on the accused.
For example, the pseudo courts at universities that have been set up where the burden of proof is on the guy to prove his innocence or get kicked out of school.
The case of the Duke LaCrosse players, the Rolling Stone Fake Rape story of "Jackie", etc.....all examples of false accusations.
The point I was making is that the vast majority of women would never make a false accusations of sexual harrassment to hurt their boss or a coworker.
But there is a smaller percentage who have no issue with it. And while that percentage is small in comparison to the percentage who would never do such a horrible thing, it's a larger percentage of women than most people realize or like to admit.
And most men are too dense to be able to spot which women are the kind who would. So even if the number of women who would ruin a guy's life just out of spite mirrors the absolute lowest possibility of that 2% paternity fraud nuber, would you ever needlessly put yourself In a situation where there is a 2% chance your career is ruined?
It's best not to take risks because all it takes is one false accusation to **** up your career in today's climate.
Just ask Johnny Depp.
