CLEVELAND, Ohio — Parents who aren’t married don’t automatically have both names recognized on a child’s birth certificate.

Determining the paternity of a child was once a very complicated process, involving intrusive blood tests and many weeks of laboratory analysis. The accuracy of the results could also be questionable, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would mandate hospitals offer genetic testing to confirm the paternity of babies who are born to unmarried couples. Reps. Melanie ...

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Maury Povich — the renowned TV host known for revealing the results of paternity tests on his show — has taken his shtick a step further by launching his own at-home DNA paternity test company. The ...

When Nara Milanich wrote Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father—a history of the scientific, legal, and social conceptions of fatherhood in Western civilization—she wasn’t expecting that her ...

Maury Povich may not be the father, but he certainly is the daddy when it comes to paternity tests. The longtime Maury host, 84, regularly doled out DNA tests to unsuspecting fathers on his eponymous ...