₦airaland Forum

spiceadole:
Lol.. Men don't know that paternity fraud started with their mothers and grandmothers.
They think it's their wives that started it.

ManknowThyself:
Yes and that will go a long way to check fidelity in marriage!!!!!!!


It’s evil to any man ignorantly training another man’s child with his life sweat through labor and still inherit his properties at death.

But it’s more foolish for a man to name a child without DNA test.

No DNA

No Name.

buygala:
Yes, only if the new father will submit himself for a DNA test to check if he is truly a son of the man he calls "father"

You can't be a baskad and demanding that your kid shouldn't be a baskad

If a man seeks to question anyone's paternity, it's only sensible that his own paternity be investigated...

Aura for Aura

Akell:
Every few months, social media erupts with another shocking story of a man discovering that the child he raised is not biologically his. In response, some people now argue that DNA testing at birth should become a standard hospital procedure.

Supporters believe compulsory DNA testing would:

• prevent paternity fraud,
• protect men from deception,
• reduce future family disputes, and
• provide medical and genetic certainty from birth.

Opponents, however, argue that it could:

• undermine trust in marriages and relationships,
• increase broken homes,
• create a culture of suspicion, and
• unfairly stigmatise women and children.

There are also broader concerns about:

• privacy and data protection,
• the financial cost of testing,
• possible government abuse or regulation, and
• whether Nigeria’s healthcare system even has the capacity to implement such a policy effectively.

So, what do you think?

• Should DNA testing at birth be compulsory, optional, or discouraged?

• Would you personally support it within your own family?

• Is trust enough, or should science settle these questions once and for all?

Ladies and gentlemen of Nairaland, over to you.

Ashirioluwa:
Why do Nigerians always like to call for unnecessary things?

No country in the world mandates universal, state-administered DNA testing to determine parentage or maternity at birth. Parentage testing should remain at the discretion of the involved parties.

If any of the parties involved doubt the paternity of a child, he or she is free to call for DNA.

The state involvement should and will only occur under specific legal or administrative circumstances when there is a dispute as per a child's paternity.

Enskynelson:
Who will be paying for the test?

Sonnobax15:

Everywhere go just scatter .

Was having a similar Conversation with a nurse in my area just yesterday about this DNA stuff and she said and I quote--"if DNA test is to be conducted in Nigeria today,over 70 percent of homes will face everlasting disintegration.

Mountbatten:
What exactly is the harm in doing this? Shouldn't a father have the right to know if a child is his?

Akell:
Every few months, social media erupts with another shocking story of a man discovering that the child he raised is not biologically his. In response, some people now argue that DNA testing at birth should become a standard hospital procedure.

Supporters believe compulsory DNA testing would:

• prevent paternity fraud,
• protect men from deception,
• reduce future family disputes, and
• provide medical and genetic certainty from birth.

Opponents, however, argue that it could:

• undermine trust in marriages and relationships,
• increase broken homes,
• create a culture of suspicion, and
• unfairly stigmatise women and children.

There are also broader concerns about:

• privacy and data protection,
• the financial cost of testing,
• possible government abuse or regulation, and
• whether Nigeria’s healthcare system even has the capacity to implement such a policy effectively.

So, what do you think?

• Should DNA testing at birth be compulsory, optional, or discouraged?

• Would you personally support it within your own family?

• Is trust enough, or should science settle these questions once and for all?

Ladies and gentlemen of Nairaland, over to you.

Akell:
Every few months, social media erupts with another shocking story of a man discovering that the child he raised is not biologically his. In response, some people now argue that DNA testing at birth should become a standard hospital procedure.

Supporters believe compulsory DNA testing would:

• prevent paternity fraud,
• protect men from deception,
• reduce future family disputes, and
• provide medical and genetic certainty from birth.

Opponents, however, argue that it could:

• undermine trust in marriages and relationships,
• increase broken homes,
• create a culture of suspicion, and
• unfairly stigmatise women and children.

There are also broader concerns about:

• privacy and data protection,
• the financial cost of testing,
• possible government abuse or regulation, and
• whether Nigeria’s healthcare system even has the capacity to implement such a policy effectively.

So, what do you think?

• Should DNA testing at birth be compulsory, optional, or discouraged?

• Would you personally support it within your own family?

• Is trust enough, or should science settle these questions once and for all?

Ladies and gentlemen of Nairaland, over to you.

worldpeacetoday:
Sadly most people don't care about paternity tests they just want to sell DNA tests. Has America, Russia and China started DNA testing at birth ?

Akell:
You're commenting cus of your warped thinking and inexposure.

Try and travel outside the country for once, the man who's not idle and you'll be well educated on why the topic was brought up.

BRATISLAVA:
Sigh. It is only on this forum that people will assume rubbish about another person so boldly. And then proceed to type out the same rubbish that's filling up their thoughts.

With no respect, shut up.

Go ahead and give us solid reasons why the topic was brought up from traveling outside of Nigeria, when it's a post from a Nigerian in Nigeria. What does traveling outside your country have to do with DNA tests, and how they're so important to every human being? Limited, convoluted, bottom of the barrel priorities being supportedwith the dumbest of logic.

These are the useless and idle topics certain Nigerian men love, and they call it exposure.

Please, voetsek.

papiSNEH:
That's why we want it to end now, so next generation won't experience it.

pocohantas:
I doubt there is any country in the world where the govt enforces such. Not even conservative Asian countries.

A child's paternity is a family problem and men, including the ones here can always call for one in their birth and nuclear families. Also start a DNA foundation. Donate to it and use the funds to sponsor men who cannot afford DNA testing.

Govt won't leave healthcare, education, security and other serious issues to fund this at all healthcare levels. Especially when y'all are the ones sleeping with each other's wives. If Nigerian men wanted this _they make up 90% of our lawmakers, they would have gotten it done since 1960.

Btruth:
Seconded & full supported. Men had suffered enough from some evil women. Imagine a woman had 4 kids for her husband. 3 was for her Pastor while the last one for her husband driver. What do you say to that?

spiceadole:
Well scripted.
Lawmakers will not make DNA paternity test compulsory.
It's a man that impregnates another man's wife.
Nigerian men are proud of being polygamous in nature as if the women they are sleeping around with are not other men's girlfriends and wives.
What goes around also comes around.

buygala:
Yes, only if the new father will submit himself for a DNA test to check if he is truly a son of the man he calls "father"

You can't be a baskad and demanding that your kid shouldn't be a baskad

If a man seeks to question anyone's paternity, it's only sensible that his own paternity be investigated...

Aura for Aura

Akell:
Like they are our master? That's it. Who made them the standard measurement? Can't we also break forth and they follow suit? Besides, do they have the rate of paternity fraud like we do here?

buygala:
Yes, only if the new father will submit himself for a DNA test to check if he is truly a son of the man he calls "father"

You can't be a baskad and demanding that your kid shouldn't be a baskad

If a man seeks to question anyone's paternity, it's only sensible that his own paternity be investigated...

Aura for Aura