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China paternity tests rise with casual sex
September 28, 2004
Paternity tests are becoming increasingly common in China along with casual sex
as suspicious husbands check on their wives' fidelity, a news agency says.
Applications for the DNA test, which in the West can cost hundreds of dollars,
had risen 20 percent a year in one Beijing hospital, the state-run China News
Service said.
It said there had already been 200 tests at the hospital by mid-September and
there would have been many more if the cost were not so high.
"According to the investigation, most men do the paternity test just to find
out whether their wives are loyal," it said.
The agency quoted a doctor as saying 80 percent of tests proved that the
husbands were indeed fathers of their children.
Attitudes towards sex relaxed after China began Western-style market reforms in
1978.
The doctor also said the tests were the by-product of a more open society.
"With the increase in one-night stands, disloyalty within a marriage,
relationships become vulnerable and people lose confidence of the loyalty of
marriage," the doctor was quoted as saying.
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