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Facts About Paternity

Shocking statistics about paternity and paternity fraud.

By Jared Rosenthal

Updated 1/31/2025

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Facts about Paternity:

Up to 1 in 3 dads who suspect that they are not the father are right .. DNA tests confirm they are not.

Around 3% of all dads in the USA do not realize that their kid isn't their biological kid.

Younger, unmarried, and lower income men are more likely to be victims of paternity fraud.

Paternity Fraud is when a woman intentionally tricks a man into thinking that he is the father of her child, when in fact she knows that he is not.

30 years ago, paternity tests were only 80% accurate. Today, results are provided with 99.999% confidence.

Health Street offers paternity tests at 5000+ locations including Eureka, CA as well as DNA Test Locations Nationwide.

Sources

This article was prepared with my own experience running Health Street, a DNA testing company that performs thousands of paternity tests per year. I also researched articles including these sources:

Citations

Wintour, Patrick (31 July 2008), The Guardian.
Bellis MA, Hughes K, Hughes S, Ashton JR (September 2005).

J Epidemiol Community Health 59 (9): 749–54. doi:10.1136/jech.2005.036517. PMC 1733152. PMID 16100312.

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Jared Rosenthal

Jared is the visionary behind Health Street. Raised in central Jersey, he developed an early entrepreneurial spirit, inspired by summers spent helping his family’s business on the Wildwood, NJ boardwalk. After earning both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Michigan, Jared worked in healthcare and marketing, eventually leading large-scale community health initiatives with a focus on accessibility and cultural sensitivity. His journey with Health Street began as he combined his drive for entrepreneurship with a commitment to making a difference in people’s lives.