How Many Fathers Does It Take to Make Twins?

New Jersey Mother has toddler twins. The twins’ putative (believed) Father is not in the picture.

Mother files a family court case for child support. To prove the identity of the Father, Mother is ordered to have the twins undergo a DNA Paternity Test.

And the DNA Paternity Test reports that one of the twins is the biological offspring of the putative Father … but not the other twin!

This may sound astonishing. But it is actually a recognized phenonomenon that occurs in a significant minority of pregancies, where the Mother has two or more sexual partners within five days of each other.

Read more in this Yahoo Parenting article: How Can Twins Have Two Different Fathers?

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