I can imagine lots of African-American families would think it is not fair to put a disproportionate number of black families under permanent genetic surveillance

— Jeffrey Rosen, quoted in ‘Grim Sleeper’ Arrest Fans Debate on DNA Use

Since the advent of DNA testing in the late 1980s, a commercial paternity testing industry has emerged worldwide, mostly grounded in disputed paternity,” said Gilding.
“The industry is the second most lucrative application of genetic identity testing after forensics, so there is a lot of incentive to raise fathers’ doubts about the legitimacy of their children. It goes right to the heart of people’s insecurities.”
Gilding also believes that evolutionary psychologists have given academic respectability to inflated estimates of paternal discrepancy, as it fits in with their belief that men are ‘hard wired’ to seek as many sexual partners as they can, and women to seek men of superior genetic quality.
“This account of paternity uncertainty highlights their over-attachment to biologistic laws at the expense of understanding the social dimensions of human behaviour.”
“The fact is that social institutions such as marriage shape our behaviour, and we are not a just a bunch of opportunistic cheats, despite what some would have you believe.

— Fathers usually are related [via]