Heteropaternal superfecundation - After three years, dad realises only one twin is his

[bananas]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/after-three-years-dad-realises-only-one-twin-is-his-20100131-n5ra.html

Heteropaternal superfecundation

After three years, dad realises only one twin is his
January 31, 2010

A Turkish man has decided to divorce his wife after DNA tests showed he was the father of only one of their twin boys.

The Turkish daily newspaper Sabah reported the security guard from Istanbul, identified only as A.K., had DNA tests done on the three-year-olds after becoming suspicious his wife had been unfaithful.

The tests established with a 99.99 per cent certainty that the man was the father of only one of the boys, adding that the result was confirmed by a forensic medicine institute upon the request of the court handling the divorce case.

The mother, identified as C.K., had maintained a relationship with a lover she had dated before her family forced her to marry A.K., the newspaper said.

The phenomenon of twins with different fathers - known as heteropaternal superfecundation - is very rare in humans but more common in animals such as cats and dogs.

It becomes possible in rare circumstances when a woman produces two ova in a menstrual cycle, said Professor Rusen Aytac, head of the gynaecology department at Ankara University's medical faculty.

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[midnight]

1. Old values uses modern science..... Now what will old values do?

I hope that poor women has a chance...

[merh]

2. Sadly, the old cruelties continue

the rest of the article

A.K. kept the boy he had fathered and disowned the other one, who ended up in a state care institution, Sabah said.

C.K., for her part, has received death threats both from her own and her husband's family, and secured a court order preventing relatives from coming within 500 metres of her, it added.

[Ilsa]

3. That poor child. Where is the compassion? Obscene cultural/religious beliefs. nt

[Berry Cool]

4. But it isn't the production by the woman of two ova in a menstrual cycle alone that causes it,

and those circumstances aren't all that rare; fraternal twins by the same father are common, after all. What's "possible in rare circumstances" is for one ovum to be fertilized by sperm from one man and the other by sperm from another.

It's more common in cats and dogs not just because of the way ova are released, but because cats and dogs usually give birth to more than one offspring at once, and when the females go into heat, unless their access has been restricted to only one male, they're likely to have sex with multiple partners during any given period of heat. Thus each of their litters may easily have multiple fathers involved.

[mopinko]

5. maybe they switched the baby in the hospital.

one of the comforts of home birth is knowing that it is your baby.
doesn't say if they tested the lover. or the mother, for that matter.

[gtar100]

6. What a repulsive person the husband is.

A boy needs a parent and he disowns him because of blood lines. May his next lives be as an orphan until he gets it. Otherwise, what justice is there in the universe.

[Chemisse]

7. If he could disown this child after 3 years

He must be a heartless bastard or a terrible father, probably both. Blood isn't the only thing that makes a child your own.