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Paternity testing would force people to disclose to their kids if they had been adopted?

• charcoalhobo 5y ago
  This isn't necessarily a bad thing—studies[1] have shown that adoption discovery between birth and two years of age may increase life satisfaction and decrease stress. The same applies to other cases where parents aren't genetically related to their children (i.e., donor egg and/or sperm). [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/adoption-disclosure-study/594496/ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/adoption-...
• spfzero 5y ago
  If I'm understanding you correctly, are you asking whether parents are required to tell their adoptive children that they are adopted? In the US definitely not, and I think that's probably the case most places. Whether or not the parents had a paternity test performed wouldn't have any bearing on it.
  • sjostrom7 5y ago
    It was a rhetorical question, sorry :) It sounded like they were saying that the only cause of kids being confused about their biological parents was infidelity.
    • spfzero 5y ago
      Ah, got it.