Before hospitals, registries, or governments puts a man’s name on a birth certificate, a DNA test should be done. DNA tests are inexpensive. They cost about as much as #COVID19 tests. It will save families future stress for all concerned, father, mother and child

Once DNA test before birth certificate becomes a law in society and every mother knows that it will be done, it will promote marital fidelity, because every woman will know she will be found out if she tries to pass off another man’s child as her husband’s child.

#RenosNuggets

mariahAngel:
This might go both ways; it will either promote marital fidelity or increase abortion rate.

inoki247:



Ehn aborting a bastard child is beta dan someone hustling to raise some else child...

Mercychen:
Good idea.
The kind of girls we have these days are rotten to say the least. They don't know the difference between when one is "married" and "still single" to draw boundaries and make adjustments to certain lifestyles and behaviors. They just continue living anyhow and sleeping around even after marriage.

Imagine the Tega scandal. Mtchew!

May God help our own sons when it's time for them to chose a wife.

inoki247:
Ehn aborting a bastard child is beta dan someone hustling to raise some else child...

U go enta danfo, Molue, Okada to get ursef to work just to take care of your kid not knowing you're running around for anoda person pikin ...

Kobojunkie:
It is? So if the child is not yours, it's not worth raising?

inoki247:
if I wan raise person child I will go Motherless baby home nd request for one nd raise him or her...

mariahAngel:
This might go either or both ways; it will either promote marital fidelity or increase abortion rate.

Kobojunkie:
What is the difference between when one is married and when one is single?

You single out the women in this but what about the men who also continue to sleep around even after marriage.... are you certain that you have a good grasp of things you see?

descartes400:
Even if the men continue to sleep around even after marriage, do men commit paternity fraaaud? No be women who dey sleep around dey pass off another's child(ren) as her husband or partner's chiiiiild(ren)? hence the need for DNA!

What is the difference between when one is married and when one is single?

You single out the women in this but what about the men who also continue to sleep around even after marriage.... are you certain that you have a good grasp of things you see?

Mercychen:

According to wordly standard, the singles can have multiple partners which is supposed to stop the moment they make a choice and settle down for only one. Then all that frolicking about stops. That's how you know one is married and left singlehood for good.

I didn't include the men here because DNA issues only apply to women in marriage and not the man.
A man cannot have a child outside marriage and hang it on the woman in deception. Not possible.

Well, as far as I have known it , the societal standard of marriage in Nigeria had seemed to be OK with men continuing their frolicking even after marriage, and this tradition continues even to this day.

The DNA issues as you rightly pointed out arises from "sleeping around" which is not unique in any way to any single gender though.

Mercychen:
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Well that's not the bone of contention here.

Yes I know it's not common with only one gender as both have to be involved for it to happen but in this case, the woman takes the blame because it's in deception to someone (her husband) which makes it a crime against her. Mind you, most times the man ( outside) she commits the crime with doesnt get to know he has a child with her.

A crime? Wow... since when did the Nigerian constitution add that one?

If both the man and woman, both of them married, have marital affairs where the man has a child with a woman outside of the marriage whereas the woman, because of nature, had to hide hers inside the marriage, are you suggesting the woman a criminal while the man is not?

Does the man outside knowing the child is his make any impact of some kind?

Mercychen:

Is parternity fraud not a crime?

What is deception if it's not a crime?
You said the man had a child out of wedlock and the woman is aware. There is no deception here. women do it too. But where it becomes a fraud/crime is when she deceives her husband into believing another man's child is his. Thats a criminal act even if it is not yet in the Constitution.

That's not what I meant. Just trying to buttress the point I made that the larger share of blame falls on the woman.

Kobojunkie:
The statement in bold I disagree with.

Mercychen:
Why?
When you deceive both the person your preggy for and your hubby, why shouldn't you take the most blame?

Kobojunkie:
Consider the case where she is sure the person who it belongs to isn't responsible enough to be informed on it. We are taking of relationship damaging information here... you are saying that a woman ought to reveal the information to the father of her child, knowing it could potentially mean an end to her relationship.

How many men who impregnate women outside of their marriages volunteer such relationship damaging information to anyone able to sabotage their marriage?

Mercychen:


You're deviating. That's not what I'm saying.

I not saying, she should divulge it to the real owner.

I'm going for Bible study now. Join me if you care.

Kobojunkie:
I don't do Bible study... I do what Jesus Christ said to do instead, the only way He said I could in fact gain understanding of Him. - Matthew 13 vs 12

This lesson He also stressed in the parable of the ten talents - Matthew 25 vs 14 - 30

Mercychen:
But you just did.
Thanks.