Call for paternity tests at birth

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An Australian fathers' rights group believes paternity testing should be compulsory when a child is born.

An Australian DNA testing firm has found a quarter of all men who submitted tests were found not to be the child's biological father.

The Sun-Herald reported that the number of paternity tests taken in Australia had doubled from 3000 in 2003 to more than 6000 last year. click here to read more.

i completely agree, but I know that our so-called privacy groups here in the us would said no way. that it would created a new data base for id. in this time where identity theft is on the rise, maybe we should link our DNA to our SSN. That way we know who is who for sure. I would said this data base should be able to be use to see who did what crime in the past. That this data base is only for ID protection and paternity, only.

Then again we know that our Government can't be trusted to to keep it that way, in fact I guess its a bad ideal after all.