Apart from DNA test, check out 4 methods of determining child’s paternity

A Paternity test enables the father to know his biological son or daughter. On the other hand, the parental test allows to identify other familiar relations such as siblings, grandfathers, uncles, cousins, etc.

The paternity and parental tests consist in a genetic study of each individual in order to obtain a blood similarity. The comparison of the genetic profiles of each individual allows the identification of the relation between them

It’s  sometimes impossible to tell whether a child is yours without doing a DNA test. Research has shown that the closer the couple are during pregnancy, the more the child resembles the father. For this reason, it’s easy to assume the child is yours when he’s really not.

Many people assume that the only way to determine paternity in this day and age is through a DNA test. However, there are other ways to help find out whether someone is really the biological father of the baby. These methods can come in handy when a DNA test is not an option.

Here’s how to determine paternity without a DNA test.

1. Blood group type: Before the advent of DNA testing, blood-type tests were the standard test for paternity. But the best you can do with this test is to know the father. You cannot conclusively determine who the actual father is.

This test relies on the ABO blood typing system where you are either a blood type A, B, AB, or O. the genes that code for blood type are inherited so you can easily know a father based on the blood type of the child. For example, it is not possible for a mother with type B blood to have a baby with type AB blood with a father who is type O. The true father must have the gene for the A antigen.

The only challenge with this test is that you cannot rule out the possibility that the mother had sexual intercourse with multiple men with the same blood type.

2. Conception: The conception date can be determined by tracking the menstrual cycle of the mother.

It’s a very good predictor of paternity since you know who you had sexual intercourse with at the time. Start by marking the date you first began to bleed from your last period. You enter into the fertile time of your cycle 11 days after the date your last period began. Count 10 days from the first day of your fertile window. This marks the end of your fertile period if you have regular periods.

Finally, get an ultrasound done to confirm the week of conception. An ultrasound done in the first trimester or the beginning of the second is very accurate at estimating the week of conception. Does the ultrasound match with what you established with the menstrual calendar? If it does, then the person you had sexual intercourse with during that time is the right father. If you had sex with more than one person, then it’s not possible to tell using this method and you have to do a DNA test.

3. Feet: You can tell a lot about someone by observing a person’s feet. It is also possible to know the father by observing the baby’s feet, and particularly their toes.

4. Eye color: Another way many people have attempted to determine paternity is by looking at the eye color of the child. This option is not as effective than the previous options because if the mother and father have brown eyes and the child has green eyes. The child’s eye color could have inherited this recessive gene trait from a family member from either the mother or father’s bloodline. This option can be reconfirmed with a blood group test.