after watching a show on Human sexuality on Discovery Health Channel , you are about right. it is estimated that if you did actual DNA testing , that about 60-80 percent of all children do not know who there biological father is. Al Turner wrote: > After carefully reviewing all the academic discussions emanating from > our panel of learned colleagues over the past several days I have become > convinced, in the interest of total accuracy, to change all the "Father" > designations in my 164,372 individual database to "UNKNOWN". This had > the immediate and unexpected effect of extending the lineage of over > seven hundred ancestorial lines by one generation. > > I would urge the Family Origins creator to begin to investigate ways to > accomodate multiple parents on the Family Group Sheet. To appease both > the family historians and the chromosomal puriest, a suggested way would > be to change the "parent" designations to "traditional father" and > "traditional mother" and add the new catergories of "sperm donor", "egg > donor", and "deoxyribonucleic acid contributor". Also, some thought > should be given to a more flexible means to handle reincarnations. I > currently have to resort to notes to dipict these occurances which are > becoming more numerous. > > But, before any or all of these enhancements are undertaken, there is an > immediate need to provide an option to spell out the months of the year > to get rid of those %#?&¿§ abbreviations. > > Al >

> after watching a show on Human sexuality on Discovery Health Channel , > you are about right. > it is estimated that if you did actual DNA testing , that about 60-80 > percent of all children do not know who their biological father is. > Actually, as far as FO goes, that chance of error doesn't bother me much. Since I personally use it to track family history, the biological father isn't as important to me as the father who raised the child. Of course, if I know a child was adopted, I'll definitely note that fact (and I'd include the birth parents, too, if known). And any known "problems" with the biological lineage would no doubt be an important part of family history! :-) Bill