TO TELL or not to tell? That is the question doctors face when they accidentally discover that children are not biologically related to their supposed father.
A fresh review of the literature on “paternal discrepancy” -medico-speak for cuckoldry -estimates that as many as 1 in 25 children in developed countries may have been sired by someone other than the supposed father.
The review in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (vol 59, p 749) covers papers published between 1950 and 2004. In the light of the findings, Mark Bellis and his colleagues at Liverpool John Moores University, UK,…
