Petition Offer free DNA paternity tests after birth as the standard NHS procedure.

Approximately 20% of the men in the UK who get a paternity test turn out not to be fathers of their alleged children. A paternity DNA check should be offered for free at birth. It should also be offered if a mother claims that someone is the father after some time passes since the birth.

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Nowadays it is easy, fast and cheap to make a DNA paternity test. If the paternity test results with a negative result, the man should have a choice to avoid any legal/financial responsibility and owe no alimonies whatsoever, unless he consciously chooses to accept the child as his own (whilst being fully aware that it was conceived by someone else).

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30 signatures

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Date closed 15 August 2019
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