Are you raising another man's child? Forensic Paternity Testing: A Man's New Best Friend.

DNA profiling is a technique employed by forensic scientists to identify persons based on their DNA profiles. Using PCR technology, DNA analysis is utilized in establishing paternity.

In a paternity test, unique markers called Short Tandem Repeats (short pieces of DNA that occur in unique repeat patterns).

Each marker is assigned a paternity index, PI, a measure of how powerfully a match at a specific marker relates to paternity. These indices are usually so strong that they can exclude the whole all other males in a population aside from the biological father with a high degree of accuracy.

My 2 cents? You no longer need to keep wondering if the child is yours...get a paternity test done today and be sure!!