Recently in Paternity Category

Unintended teen moms such as Bristol Palin and those on MTV's Teen Mom show have made national headlines recently.

However, while the cultural landscape discussed them, there was a lot of empirical data missing. Now, thankfully, to resolve the teen mom mystery, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta has put forward a new study, reports 11 Alive Atlanta.

Alcohol consumption leads to a likelihood of unsafe sex, reports The Atlantic.

In a study conducted by the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, a series of 12 experiments found that alcohol consumption and the intention to engage in unsafe sex were linked. In their analysis, the researchers randomly assigned the participants to a drinking group or a sober group and measured a person's intention to have sex without a condom.

If you can have a roommate when neither of you have kids, why not have a roommate when both of you have kids? This simple idea of community, along with finances, seems to be driving a new trend, that of single mom cohabitation, reports Babble.

Although the idea of communal parenting is as old as time -- even Plato recommended it -- the recent rise of single mom cohabitation may be simple demographics. According to a number of surveys about single mother parenthood, 41% of new mothers are unmarried. Faced with similar challenges, it was only a matter of time that single moms living together became more widely accepted.

After the pop-star Beyonce Knowles and her husband Sean "Jay-Z" Carter announced news of Beyonce's pregnancy it created history's biggest Twitter storm. It was bigger even than the death of Osama Bin Laden or the Japanese Earthquake, reports Huffington Post.

If a pregnancy has that kind of cache, then its likely going to spur discussions as well. One conversation was launched by Charing Ball, a columnist for the Atlanta Post, which describes itself as "an online news site about African-American business news and African-American politics."

Rene Chantel Frank, 27, is now pregnant with twins and the allegations are that a 17-year-old boy is the father. Perhaps the most shocking part of this story is that Rene Frank is a teacher at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County and the alleged father is a student.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Frank admitted to police officers that she and the teenage boy had sex inside of her parked vehicle numerous times off campus. She is now facing criminal charges for having sex with the minor, including a charge of assault of a person in school.

It's a good idea to establish paternity after a baby is born to a non-married couple so that the father of the child can be legally identified. DNA testing procedures can prove paternity of a father, which could be used for the mother to collect child support and for the father to have parental rights in cases involving child custody or child support.

Some family lawyers are now questioning whether it should be a requirement for parents to go through paternity testing procedures. The Associated Press reports that a bill has been introduced in the Kansas Legislature that would require every newborn in the state of Kansas to be genetically tested to identify their child's father.

A Moultrie woman was arrested and charged with theft by deception after she convinced her ex-boyfriend to pay her money in child support when no such child existed. The Albany Herald reported that the suspect in this alleged child support scam was Regina Thompson, who used the child of a friend to convince Joseph Golden that the child was his.

While there was no legal agreement that required Golden to pay child support, the man reportedly gave Thompson $1,600 in five payments to go to the daughter that he thought was his. The scam unraveled when Golden tried to secure visitation rights to the girl in court, which led Thompson to deny that there was a child when she took the stand.

Martial arts expert and former Michael Jackson bodyguard Matt Fiddes claims he's the biological father of the pop star's son, Blanket, according to the Herald Sun. "Blanket" is the nickname for Prince Michael II, whom Michael Jackson raised as his own son; but Matt Fiddes' announcement casts doubt on the King of Pop's paternity.

He told Australian reporters that he donated sperm for Michael Jackson because the deceased singer feared being killed on stage. He said the singer asked him to look after his children if anything were to happen to him, which still doesn't quite explain the alleged sperm donation.

New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie is not the only professional athlete to fool around while traveling the country. But, with nine children from eight different women, Antonio Cromartie may be among the most prolific, as the New York Post reported. The oldest of the nine kids is five years old.

Maybe he's lost count, since he said he had eight kids when asked last month on HBO's reality television show "Hard Knocks." The point is, this guy gets around.

A Seattle-area woman has been accused of theft, perjury and fraud after allegedly faking her own pregnancy and stealing thousands of dollars in child support payments from the man she said was the daddy, according to the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

King County prosecutors claim Federal Way resident Carmen Lynn Johnsen told her lover at the time (December 2008) that she was pregnant with his child. She took a couple of pregnancy tests a month later, which showed she actually was not pregnant, but she allegedly kept that to herself.

It's important to point out that DNA tests used to determine paternity are very accurate. Regardless, it's often a good idea to consult with a Georgia family law attorney first before agreeing to child support payments if you're in doubt.