For decades, South Carolina resident James C. Graham had been tormented by an inescapable feeling — his father seemed to deeply dislike him. This man’s remarkable quest for truth began in 1993, when his aging aunt and uncle confronted James with an obituary from a Catholic newsletter. They pointed to a sad, balding man who was listed of having died earlier that year and said “this priest may be your father.”

Though Graham was struck by the similarities between this priest’s facial features and his own, he had nothing else to go on, as both this priest and his own mother were deceased. Nevertheless, he began hunting down documents and piecing together timelines from the two individuals. He learned that his mother had left her first husband and Graham’s two older sisters shortly after he was born, fleeing abruptly without telling anyone where she was going. At about the same time, this priest had also deserted the Catholic order, leaving no trace.

Graham began to suspect that his mother and this priest were trying to embark on a new life and raise their newborn son together. But their plans were destroyed when her enstranged husband hired private detectives and discovered the couple holed up in a Manhattan apartment. According to uncovered court testimony, Graham’s stepfather testified to bursting into the apartment and seeing his wife in bed with another man. This gave Graham’s stepfather the power to divorce his mother and retain custody of him and his two older half-sisters.

Graham’s mother married someone else and remained close to Graham, though she took the secret to her grave. Church records show that the priest rejoined the Catholic Priesthood and spent the remainder of his life doing menial tasks like translating religious texts before he also died without revealing the secret.

Still, Graham lacked conclusive proof of his true father. In a hail-mary attempt, he asked the Catholic Church for permission to exhume the priest’s body and conduct a DNA test. To his great surprise, the Church agreed, and the results were conclusive.

Graham now enters a little-known group of people secretly fathered by Catholic Priests who break their promise of celibacy. Because of the shame and secrecy surrounding this act, the true number of people like Graham will never be known, but it’s likely to number in the thousands. Thousands of children growing up without the love of a biological father, secretly feeling that something is wrong but unable to put their finger on what it is.

The Catholic Church, in an official statement, expressed pleasure that Graham finally has the answers he so long sought. But the Church has been criticized for failure to do more to uncover abuses and impropriety within the church.

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“Maury” was the reigning king of daytime television in the early 2000’s, and though it’s not as popular as it once was, it’s still been renewed through to at least the 2020 television season.

A mixture of the shamelessness of Jerry Springer, but with just enough of the self-empowerment of Oprah, the tabloid-themed talk show is sometimes credited as the start of “black-trash TV”.

The show’s bread and butter was undoubtedly the Paternity Test segment. Day after day it’s the same — a young black single mother, low on the socioeconomic totem pole, embarrasses herself on national TV as she recounts all the different possible men who could be the father. There’s usually one (or more) “prime suspects” on the show and the two are encouraged to fight it out in front of the audience. They pull up the young child’s picture and the couple argue about facial features.

Maury is a constant figure on stage, using his journalistic skills to poke and prod the feud in just the right ways, sometimes masquerading as a sort of comforting therapist, sometimes pretending to be indignant. The viewer themselves is encouraged to pick sides in the fight.

Of course, Maury has the results of the paternity test in his hands. He knows the answer even before the show started. But at just the right moment, the screen flashes “THE RESULTS ARE IN!” Maury then opens the comically oversized envelope, the audience captivated and dead silent. He utters the same phrase, the only difference being the inclusion of one word. “You are NOT! the father.”

Pandemonium erupts. One side is inevitably proven right and they take their gratuitious victory lap, often running the shocked mother or newly confirmed father clear off the stage.

Maury finally tries to wrap up the segment by getting a promise from the new father to “do what’s right” or pledging to help the mother test more men in future episodes. It’s a feel-good note to end with. Then onto the next one.

Of course, I haven’t explained the show in a good light. But there’s no doubt that millions of viewers love this show and are obsessed with watching it every day. What is the draw?

First, the show perfectly encapsulates conflict. In real life, arguments and strife are messy. The true motivations of the other person aren’t known, the problem can be difficult to understand, and the resolution often comes months later or not at all. With these Paternity Test segments, you not only got an easily digestible premise, but you get a binary, “Yes or No” answer on the spot. Second, by having predominantly trashy people on the show, the viewer inherently feels superior about themselves and their own life. Overall, the show is a one-two punch of a dramatically satisfying narrative and a dose of self-satisfaction.
But this narrative comes at a steep cost, both in exploiting the couple who appear on the show and perpetuating damaging stereotypes about race and sex.

Upfront, a significant majority of the guests on the show are black, which contributes to longstanding racial stereotypes about families and black fathers, and the belief that a lot of blacks — moreso than whites — go out and have reckless sex, making random babies with strangers without the full grasp of the consequences.

Second, while nobody forces these people to come on the show, there’s no doubt that the producers deliberately fan the flames of conflict and make sure it plays out in the most exploitative and damaging possible way. Whenever a tearful mother races backstage, the camera crew huffing behind her so as to never miss a moment or give her a safe space to process what has just happened, it’s hard to deny that she is being exploited and traumatized for the pleasure of the viewing audience.

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Even just a decade or two ago, widely available and cheap DNA Testing was considered in the realm of science fiction. But now, thanks to an explosion in both ancestral curiosity and DNA Testing Companies, you can have a convenient in-home testing kit sent to your uncle for their birthday. Unlocking the lost secrets of your parentage, ancestors or medical conditions is now the price of a family dinner at an upscale restaurant.

But what actually happens when your cheek sample is sent off in that envelope? How do companies use your saliva to determine the nationality of your great-great-grandfather? Let’s unpack the science behind the magic.

Inside your saliva is many fresh samples of your DNA Genome. This is the unique genetic code that makes up.. well.. you! Unless you’re an identical twin, your DNA is completely unique to you in the entire world, and in the entire history of humanity.

Everybody knows that DNA looks kind of like a twisted ladder. The rungs of the ladder are the actual instruction sequence for your genome, and they come in 4 types called A, C, G and T. Sophisticated equipment breaks down the DNA sequence into a very long string of these letters. On its own, the sequence looks like complete gibberish, both to the average person and even to the scientists examining the data.

That’s where computer algorithms come in. Over many decades, through comparing hundreds of thousands of DNA samples and through exhausting trial and error, we have been able to identify patterns in the noise. There’s no string of letters that instantly means “Russian” or “Irish”, but we have noticed that confirmed Russian or Irish natives have very specific combinations of DNA letterings in certain spots of their genome. With computer help, if we then compare how close another DNA profile matches these specific strings, we can determine, with robust scientific accuracy, how much Russian or Irish descent that person has.

“The way that the algorithm works, it takes an entire genome and chunks it up,” said Robin Smith, who heads 23andMe’s ancestry program. “It takes little pieces, and for each piece, it compares it against British; it compares it against West African; it goes through the entire list, and it spits out a probability for [where that piece of DNA came from].”

The biggest weak point in this method is, the so-called “reference libraries” have to be accurate. Many people do have very accurate immediate background information that has been passed down from their parents. Other samples are pulled from independent research. But each company has their own private method for gathering these samples and matching incoming DNA profiles to them.

Where things get even more accurate is when it comes to Paternity Testing.

Researchers can track paternal ancestry by looking at the Y chromosome, which fathers pass to their male children. This time there’s no third-party “reference library” required, you just need to compare one set of DNA to another, and see if it matches up in enough key ways. Because your genome is 50% from your father, 50% from your mother, it won’t be a perfect match. But scientists know exactly what to look for to determine, with over 99% accuracy, the true identity of your father.

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DNA Ancestry Tests can help shed light on past family history that you didn’t know about. But it’s not every day that it can also illuminate still-living relatives that you never knew existed!

That was the case for one woman, 46 year old Adriana Brown. She was adopted at birth, and submitted a DNA test just trying to learn more about her family background. But by sheer coincidence, just two weeks after she sent hers in, her father also took a test with the same company, also just curious about his background. The company was able to identify a definitive match between the two.

“It said Bob Rodger, relationship parent/child,” Adriana said. “Yeah, so I sat at my kitchen counter in tears.” When she emailed her father about the DNA match, he was skeptical until she told him her birth mother’s name. Then he recalled a brief tryst, and now Father and Daughter have kindled a relationship thought lost.

“She’s beautiful,” said Bob, “just beautiful and I’m so proud of her.”

“This is the first time in my life I look and act like someone, and that’s pretty special,” said Adriana. “I feel like I found my people. They just seem like me, they act like me, they’re saying and doing the things that I would like to do for someone.”

DNA Testing can provide scientific matches to relationships once impossible to determine. All over the world, people are discovering siblings they never realized they had, or even the true paternity of their children.

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Ancestry-oriented DNA Tests are the latest hot thing, but not all DNA testing companies are created equal. One Canadian company has sent back supposedly human ancestry results from DNA that actually came from a chihuahua. Shockingly, this not the first but the SECOND time this has happened.

This was not a comedic mistake in sample collection, but a coordinated sting by a suspicious colleague. Louis Côté, who worked with the company to collect samples, started to suspect something was wrong. So he bought three kits, submitted two cheek swabs from himself and one from his girlfriend’s dog, Snoopy. The results showed that both he and Snoopy had almost the same ancestry profile!

“I thought it was a joke,” Côté told CBC News. “The company is fooling people … the tests are no good.”

Once local media picked up on the story, it led to other companies being put through the paces. CBC News submitted samples to several different DNA Ancestry companies, from three of their employees known to be natives of India and Russia. And NBC Chicago tried submitting labrador DNA to one other DNA testing company.

In CBC New’s case, all the DNA profiles correctly identified their employees Eurasian origins, except for that one same company, who came back that they were natives of Canada, in a suspiciously similar profile to both Louis Côté and his Chihuahua. This company is no good, we say!

NBC Chicago didn’t fare much better. The company they tried was unable to detect that their DNA wasn’t human, and the company’s gene profile recommended the dog would be a great candidate for basketball (no Air Bud jokes, please).

So does this mean all DNA Testing is inaccurate? Absolutely not. What it DOES mean is that all DNA Testing companies are reputable. There has been an explosion of online DNA Testing, especially as it relates to Ancestry. Some of these companies appear to be sending out pre-generated or falsified results. Please make sure you have a legitimate company for you DNA Testing so you don’t waste your hard earned dollars and so you obtain an accurate result!

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Kylie Jenner welcomed her beautiful baby girl back in February 2018. But there are still swirling rumors surrounding baby Stormi’s true father. Kylie reportedly is 100% sure that her current boyfriend, Travis Scott, is the father of baby Stormi, but her ex-boyfriend Tyga isn’t quite as convinced.

Apparently there was enough of an overlap between Kylie’s relationships that either of the two men could possibly have been the father. “Tyga wants a DNA test because he really thinks there’s a chance this baby could be his.” he is reported to have told his friends. “He was still sexually active with Kylie nine months ago, when this baby was likely conceived.”

Even though Kylie was strongly against taking a paternity test, because of the persistent rumors that would not go away and the overlapping timelines, she was forced to entertain the possibility that the father of her baby might not be who she thought it was. So she consented to taking a paternity test, but on one condition — that Tyga never talk about it again.

As it turns out, Kylie’s instincts were right. Tyga is not the father of baby Stormi. Honoring their agreement, Tyga posted a cryptic tweet that apologized for starting false rumors, without mentioning names. But it’s likely that his relationship with the Kardashians is ruined for good.

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A routine genealogy check led to a family-shattering surprise for one Idaho woman. When Kelli Rowlette received her results back, she assumed someone had made a mistake. It predicted a parent-child relationship not to the father who had raised her, but to another man more than 500 miles away.

Rowlette discovered that, almost 4 decades ago, her parents had struggled to conceive, and that her mother underwent successful artificial insemination. But what not even her own parents realized is that the sperm used was not her husbands, but sperm belonging to their own fertility doctor.

This wild story comes from a lawsuit filed recently in Idaho. The fertility doctor diagnosed Rowlette’s father with a low sperm count, and her mother with a tipped uterus, meaning it would be difficult for them to conceive naturally. The doctor recommended both Rowlette’s father’s sperm and that of an anonymous donor be inserted for the best possible chance of conception. Though her parents requested a 6+ ft tall donor with brown hair and blue eyes, the lawsuit alledges that their doctor (who did not match those specifications) used his own sperm.

This doctor wound up delivering his own child and remained the couple’s physician for several more years. When Rowlette’s mother told the doctor they were moving away, he cried — a fact she thought was strange at the time but now realizes is proof he knew it was his own child. Even so, he never told them the secret.

It wasn’t until 36 years later that the lies finally unraveled, thanks to the wonders of DNA Testing. Rowlette was complaining about the unreliability of the service to her mother, when she happened to mention the name of the match. Her mother immediately recognized the doctor’s name, and called her now-ex husband to confirm the shocking truth.

An Indiana fertility doctor pleaded guilty last year to a similar case, when DNA testing showed he was the father of at least two of his patient’s children.

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Louisiana rapper Lil Wayne has many songs bragging about his sexual promiscuity, but had so far avoided a single child support case. But that changed when Keiotia Watson claims that she and Wayne had sex in 2001 and he is the father of her 16 year old son, Dwayne Brown.

In 2015 a judge agreed with Keiotia and ordered Lil Wayne to pay $5000 a month in child support. The rapper refused to pay a dime, saying that although he was in New Orleans at the same time as Watson, they never had sex in 2001 or any other time.

In response to the “he said, she said” back and forth, a new judge ordered Wanye to take a paternity test and the results are in.

There is a zero percent chance that Lil Wayne is the father of Dwayne Brown.

As we can see from this case, even A-list celebrities can become ensnared by injustice. If Lil Wayne had obeyed the judge’s earlier ruling, he would have been paying child support for a child that was not his. This happens to tens of thousands of fathers across the country.

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Here’s a head-scratcher for you: If your grandma wasn’t actually your grandma, would you still be “you”?

Statistical research estimates that about 1% of family trees are based around false or incorrect biological relationships. When applied across our nation of 320 million people, that’s a whole lot of families with mis-attributed relationships. From unknown siblings, shunned family members, infidelity or anonymous sperm donations — there’s a whole forest of family trees waiting to be cut down.

The growing popularity and affordability of ancestral DNA testing means more people than ever before are getting concrete answers about their biological history.

In one headlines-grabbing case, a woman figured out that over 100 years ago, there was a clerical error in the hospital, and her infant grandfather was accidentally sent home with a stranger’s family, while that family’s infant had been sent home with hers. The bombshell revelation revealed two sets of relatives that wouldn’t have known each other existed, if not for DNA testing.

And in the case of “George Doe”, he discovered a half-brother he never knew existed, his father’s secret son from his previous marriage.

Statistically, such outcomes are unlikely. But people are naturally curious as to their place in the world, and that is what is driving the ancestral testing marketplace to grow from about $111 million dollars in 2017, to an estimated $340 million in 2022.

So how does it work? How can we be so sure of ancestry even if the relatives or grandparents are long-deceased? Most ancestral tests rely on 22 pairs of chromosomes. These are special instructions that are passed down from parent to child, and it’s why children resemble their parents — because they have been given the same instructions.

These markers are arranged in a very particular way that is your unique genetic code. The ancestry tests map out this code, and then try and match it together with a massive database containing the genetic information of other people.

In some cases, adoptees can locate their birth families. In others, there are no clear matches and the genetic trail goes cold. But the more people worldwide that take the test, the larger the database grows and the more likely it is that matches will be found.

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