Most Paternity Tests Show Doubter is Father

Suspicious blokes who request paternity tests are mostly wrong and about 80 per cent are found to be the real father, new Queensland research suggests.

While some 80 per cent of men who ask for a test find out they are in fact the father, only just over half had actually expected that result.

And the research, conducted by Andrea Hayward, the director of Queensland's only registered DNA testing facility, DNA Qld, shows when a woman asks for a test she often gets the result she predicted.