I wonder if the “sexual revolution” which started years ago in which married men and women both were having affairs has contributed to the lowering IQ and mental instability of so many people in our nation? A couple of decades ago, it was men and women meeting at their children’s sporting events, having an affair, and then the resulting child was assumed to be the husband’s child. Then, in small communities, the children go to school together while not realizing they are half-siblings, date and eventually produce another child that is a product of unknown family gene-mixing. Now, there is no marriage but instead “hook-ups” where no one knows who the father actually is for resulting the child.
I know that decades ago, one had to have a blood-test prior to getting married to make sure than the couple were not related although they coined it as testing for STD’s. A county official told me that was the actual reason for blood tests, although she might have been joking.
Of course, the decreasing IQ levels are more likely to be from uncontrolled illegal aliens from low IQ nations streaming across our borders and producing children who have no structure in their lives and provided no education. But the other possibility may have some merit.
She was joking .
There was no DNA testing at the time of the Wasserman. The Wasserman was done to insure there was no syphilis in the couple because a syphilis baby is often born moronic and without eyes.
And there was that fertility doctor in a small town who was impregnating his patients with his own semen.
When it was discovered, it turned out that a great percentage of the school kids were half siblings. Some were dating each other, but he was found out before they were old enough to marry, I think.
They say he had a God complex.
I know that decades ago, one had to have a blood-test prior to getting married to make sure than the couple were not related although they coined it as testing for STD’s. A county official told me that was the actual reason for blood tests, although she might have been joking.
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I first married in 1962 in Texas, at age 19. Blood tests were required then to ensure no close relationship. There was no info about HIV back then.
Ran across an article the other day about a married couple with two kids, who found out they were related. Father / daughter it turns out.
Unbeknownst to the man, a girlfriend he’d dated got pregnant, had the kid and put her up for adoption. Years later man and woman meet fall in love, got married, had kids.
Wife has a medical issue. Wife needs a Kidney it seems and so hubby says I’ll get tested, you never know.
Turns out he was a match because he was her father. Neither one knew.
That would be a real kick in the head, wouldn’t it?
I imagine random encounters could contribute to that.
She was not joking, she was flat out lying to you.
A blood test can not tell if you are related. Only if you are possibly not. Until the 90s paternity tests could only rule you out as the father. It could not say that you were the father for certain.
It was exactly what they said it was for, a test for STDs.