🍹Early to RISA 🧉Nov 13

Anon takes a DNA test

https://sh.itjust.works/post/49708021

Show threadWalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]Nov 13

I have a half-sibling who took one of those tests not knowing his parents went to a sperm bank due to fertility issues, so he assumed his mom had an affair (and he’s not the youngest child). The rest of us all knew I think (except the sperm donor’s actual child). Fortunately, he had another one of my half-siblings reach out to him to explain it.

Also “Turned out my father isn’t my real dad” is BS. Genetic test results are useless for determining such.

Show threadcameron_Nov 13

Genetic tests can be used to determine paternity though?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_paternity_testing

Maybe you are referring to a specific type of test?

DNA paternity testing - Wikipedia

Show threadFushuan [he/him]

Who is your father, the one you would rely on when you need a paternal figure, the dude who shoot his sperm or the dude who raised you? Hopefully both dudes are the same person but in the case they aren’t, I think the answer is clear.

I’d be surprised if adopted kids don’t consider the people who raised them as parents as their actual parents.

Nov 13 at 12:39pmWeb
Show threadRaivoKulliNov 13
I mean first one might just be a father figure, second is the biological father and the third might be a step-father. All fathers of sort
Show threadFushuan [he/him]Nov 13
You would be technically correct with the first two, but adopted kids are not step-kids. Those aren’t are legally full parents, not step-parents. Step-parents might be the boyfriend or next husband of a single mother or vice-versa, but once you are adopted, if we are getting pedantic about it, the step thing disappears.
Show threadRaivoKulliNov 13
Oh okay, i just thought it came from not being the biological father