Man secretly DNA tests brother’s child and accidentally exposes a family secret: ‘I bought a DNA test kit and swabbed Leo while I was babysitting’

DNA testing is an incredibly useful technology. It gives us the power to be more informed about our medical history, our genetic makeup, and where we come from. It’s something that we didn’t have access to 100 years ago, but we do now. So like any new(ish) technology, we’re still figuring out how to use …
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‘No woman with sense would want you’: Mom calls out her husband’s best friend after he joked about possibly being the father of their 2-year-old son, husband tells her she went too far

You don’t have to be humorless to not enjoy every joke you hear. We’ve all been in a situation where you make a joke that was meant to be harmless but unintentionally hurt someone’s feelings. There’s always some risk involved with telling a scandalous joke when it involves people you don’t know that well. With …
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Dad requests paternity test when 3-week-old daughter has darker hair than him, doesn’t understand when wife gets offended: ‘She’d still be my girl’

Emotions always run high when a baby is born, and not always in a good way. There are few other things that a person can do to change their life so radically, and it can leave them with some thoughts and feelings that they weren’t expecting. This is common with new moms and the mental …
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Childfree woman demands husband get paternity test for 13-year-old nephew because he looks more like him than his sister: ‘I have played a father-like role since he was a kid’

Genetics is a fascinating subject, and genes can show up strongly in the most interesting of ways. You can be minding your business and living your life as normal, then you get totally blindsided when somebody takes a photo of you and you somehow look exactly like your grandma. When did that happen? Unsurprisingly, it …
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Man Astonishes Family by Inviting Favorite Nephew to Wedding Despite the Startling Revelation That He Is Not Biologically Related and Is an ‘Affair Baby’

You will always love and care for your children. But what would you do if, after over twenty years, you found out that your child is not biologically yours, even though you were tricked into believing that you are the father? The story below is an account of a frustrated uncle. The original poster (OP) …
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‘We’re 5th cousins’: The strange family secrets uncovered by DNA testing

Just took a DNA test turns out I’m 100%… married to my 5th cousin. Whoops! This is exactly the kind of thing that you dread finding out when you take one of those mail-in DNA test kits. I, for one, am too scared to do it for fear that I’m carrying some unknown, dormant disease. …
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