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The one biological claim you can't prove without a lab, unlike motherhood's obvious paperwork.
means The state of being someone's father, or the fact of having fathered a child.
from From Latin paternitas, built on pater, 'father' — the same ancient root (traceable back to Proto-Indo-European pəter) that gives English 'paternal' and 'patron,' and that shows up as cognate father-words across most of the Indo-European family, from Greek pater to Sanskrit pitr.
- legal default
- husband presumed father even without a DNA test
- etymology
- from pater, Latin for father, obviously
- test accuracy
- modern DNA tests exceed 99.9 percent certainty
- leave gap
- many countries offer mothers months, fathers days