Agents of DNA Tests Mismatch
Whenever the issue of mismatched DNA tests comes up, many people immediately cock their guns against the women. You begin to hear “Women are this” and “Women are that”.
Any mismatched DNA result somewhere has a match somewhere else, and that match is with a man, not a woman.
First of all, women should not be the champions of DNA paternity testing, sir. The moral burden is not on women to request DNA testing when unsure. I think women are always pretty much surer about the fact of whose pregnancies they bear. Secondly, “Men don’t get pregnant?” So they share no responsibility in checking the occurrence of mismatched DNA in children? This is ridiculous because the “multiple partners” right that most men assert unto themselves is a major contributor to the continued festering of mismatched DNA paternity tests.
Why should women be the champions of DNA paternity testing? It’s a paternity test, not a maternity test, right? If we’re to normalize DNA paternity testing, the normalizing should be done by men. Women have not started impregnating women yet so women do not get other men’s women or wives pregnant. When a woman gets pregnant, she knows, more than she doesn’t, the man who is responsible for the pregnancy. Why should women stress about normalizing a test whose result they have much better than any testing can prove?
The burden of reducing or eradicating mismatched DNA test results is more, if not solely, on men.
The moral burden here is on the men. It should be commonplace knowledge but let me say this nonetheless – any mismatched DNA result somewhere has a match somewhere else, and that match is with a man, not a woman. The moral burden is on men who should know that they are the more culpable agents of mismatching DNA results. The women get caught in the web aborting or not aborting; then lying daily, to themselves first, then to their supposed husbands, then their parents and friends, and then living daily with the lies and continually looking at their husband as he spends or wastes his life, every day, being a father to children conceived from another man. This is the burden that such women bear, when there’s a burden. The burden of reducing or eradicating mismatched DNA test results is more, if not solely, on men.
Women have not started impregnating women yet so women do not get other men’s women or wives pregnant.
Summarily, since it’s some depiction of reality, let me reference the film Afamefuna. In the film, Paul overshadowed Odogwu’s daughter, who had decided to wed Afamefuna, and got her pregnant. Should Paul have told Afamefuna about that intercourse before his wedding to the lady, or somewhere in the course of the film, without getting irresponsible about it? Should the lady, who was a doctor, have known her biology better, to abort or come clean with Afamefuna? On his own, should Afamefuna have used his tongue to count his teeth and done better? Well, the “mismatches of DNA” in the film’s storytelling are not my focus now. My focus is on how a man knew he got another man’s wife pregnant and decidedly milked that mismatching situation to his advantage. This is what men do and the burden to stop this is more on men than it can ever be on women.
