My boyfriend & I just found out he has a 7 month old daughter from a 1 night stand when we split.

If he's the father, he's the father, whether a DNA test s ever done or not

Do nothing until you get the results of the DNA test.

Lighten up fer fucks sake

Seriously, this isn't something to be written off work for (which she has been) and considering herself a victim is, well, pathetic.

Seriously, this isn't something to be written off work for (which she has been) and considering herself a victim is, well, pathetic.

If the OP's partner has determined/determined he is the father, it's not up to any of us to judge whether or not he is (or how he got to that decision).

If he had decided to take the word of a one night stand

Do nothing until you get the results of the DNA test.

Have you got everyone else who posted on ignore?

because we cannot assume that people are that stupid
Nope, Gotta assume that a DNA test was done and this is all post facto reaction.

You do not understand the word IF it would seem.

how in the hell can you not assume that a large percent of the human race is not indeed stupid.

cause the paternity seems to be already established

In the research world, when scientists come across a father in a mismatched family, they toss the sample. If pedigree errors are not caught, Dr. Scherer said, they can wreak statistical havoc with a study: "People have made careers designing software to catch these kinds of things."

Sample mix-ups can skew results, as can an extremely rare condition discovered in 1989 in which a child inherits two copies of the same chromosome from one parent, obscuring the contribution of the other. But as the number of gene hunts and diagnostic tests has grown and grown, the leading cause of these anomalies has proved to be mistaken fatherhood.

Some peg the range at 5 to 10 per cent; others, such as Jeanette Papp of the University of California at Los Angeles, feel that 15 per cent is reasonable for the Western world, even if there is no hard evidence. "It's hard to do studies on these things for ethical reasons," says Dr. Papp, director of genotyping and sequencing in UCLA's department of human genetics. "I mean, how do you tell people what you're really looking for?"

A British survey conducted between 1988 and 1996 by Robin Baker, a former professor at the University of Manchester, confirmed the 10-per-cent figure. That seems high to skeptics such as Dalhousie University geneticist Paul Neumann, although even he admitted that "my colleague, who's a woman, tells me women have no trouble believing it. . . . It's the men who can't."