First home PREGNANCY tests, now home PATERNITY tests?

AKA2D '91 · #1 10-03-2002, 09:39 PM

Connie Chung had a guy on the show who had to continue to pay child support even though his home paternity test excluded him as the father.

The guy says he collected samples of his saliva and the child's saliva and sent the "packet" to a lab. Four weeks later, he received the results that excluded him as being the child's father.

Did anyone know these were on the market?

stillwater15 · #2 10-03-2002, 10:19 PM

yup, i knew about this... in new jersey, i've actually seen billboards advertising this.

similarly, that's like parents who can go to wal-mart and get a kit to test their kids urine for drugs. all sorts of stuff is available now-a-days.

Steeltrap · #3 10-04-2002, 11:59 AM

I can draw an analogy between insurance companies paying for Viagra but not birth control. If you're going to do for one, why not do for the other?

poodleNtraining · #4 10-04-2002, 12:08 PM

Wow, that's amazing, I didn't know about those tests but I have heard of the at home AIDS test.