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- Title
- Rampant misattributed paternity: the creation of an urban myth
- Author(s)
- Gilding, Michael
- Abstract
- There is a common view that misattributed paternity is widespread in Western societies, between ten and 30 per cent of all births. Such estimates are an urban myth. The actual evidence suggests that the true extent of misattributed paternity is closer to one per cent, and not more than three per cent.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Source
- People and Place, Vol. 13, no. 2 (2005), pp. 1-11
- Publication year
- 2005
- Keyword(s)
- Parents; Biology; Fraud; Research; Attitudes; Internet; Mass media; Sex; Behaviour; Sex role; Sex surveys; Paternity testing; Genetic testing; Sociolobiologists; Inflated estimates
- Publisher
- Monash Centre for Population and Urban Research
- ISSN
- 1039-4788
- Publisher URL
- http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/480786
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2005 Monash University and Michael Gilding. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
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