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Quotes About Paternity

A woman was not considered related to her own child by the bizarre laws of England. The man's seed contained the whole of the baby, so they said, who nestled inside the woman for most of a year before she bore it. This made the child the father's, not the mother's.
~ Jennifer Ashley
A bright moon can astonish, no matter how many times you have seen it. If you were a child who loved the moon, looking at the moon will remind you of childhood. Fatherless girls may invest the moon with a certain paternal promise. Everyone has a father. A vague story like "Your father died before you were born" may satisfy even a canny child for an unlikely number of years. The truth of your paternity, discovered in adulthood, will make the lie seem retroactively ludicrous.
~ Jennifer Egan
Jameson leaned back in his chair, balancing it on two legs, then let the front legs drop down and leaned to whisper directly into my ear. "Toby Hawthorne is your father.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity. All of the Hat Creek Outfit, including particularly Augustus McCrae, want Call to accept the boy as his son.
~ Larry McMurtry
Does he know he's your son?" "I suppose he does—I give him my horse," Call said, feeling that it was hell to have her, of all women, talk to him about the matter. "Your horse but not your name?" Clara said. "You haven't even given him your name?" "I put more value on the horse," Call said
~ Larry McMurtry
Superfecundation is the term used when twins are conceived from sperm from different men if a woman has had more than one partner during a menstrual cycle. It is not known how often this happens, but if suspected, then paternity can be checked by DNA testing (Terasaki et al 1978).
~ Diane M. Fraser
Mais on laisse n'importe quel connard débile devenir père
~ Robert Dugoni
You people are such an infertile lot that paternity seems to hit you much harder than it does others. Look at Random. For years he had disowned his son, and now-I've a feeling he'd risk his life for him.
~ Roger Zelazny
I come from Canada, and maternity leave is six months to a year, and they also have paternity leave, and I think that there's something to that. There's also something to making a more comfortable environment for women to breast feed or to bring their kids into work and to have more nurseries in these office buildings.
~ Cobie Smulders
A bed unslept, and a woman unbedded. The bed is yours by right, but the woman, though she may come to you in time, never completely belongs to you. Yet the child is yours, for the child belongs not to who makes him but to he who takes him.
~ Robin Hobb
Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
My mommy said my daddy fights bad men and wins. She says he likes to fish and he knows how to play really cool games. Her chin lifted a notch in a surfeit of pride. She said my daddy will love me more than a kid loves ice cream. My mommy doesn't lie to me, so you lied to her when you told her you were my daddy. You are not my daddy! She screamed the final declaration to him, dry-eyed and filled with childish fury.
~ Lora Leigh
Was James Dawg Mackay aware Johnny was also the biological son of his father, your brother Chandler Mackay?
~ Lora Leigh
I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.
~ Ricki Lake
He took a long time to answer. "I asked which of her brothers had fathered the baby. She told me it could have been either.
~ Sandra Brown
She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father's.
~ Saul Bellow
If the mother was not married at either conception or birth, the details of the putative father could not be entered on the certificate without both his written consent and that of the mother. In other words, there was little to stop a woman
~ John Connolly
I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
~ Boris Becker
Look at his hair. He looks like his father. (Cassandra) He has your lungs. (Wulf) Oh, please! (Cassandra) Trust me. Every Apollite here knows that my parents were unmarried at my birth, and that if you survive the night, you plan on making me a eunuch. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In almost all mammals and all primates, females do almost all of the child care, with very little help from males. Males could never be sure which offspring really carried their genes, whereas females could be certain. This uncertainty about paternity leads most male mammals to invest much more in pursuing new sexual opportunities than in taking care of their putative offspring.
~ Geoffrey Miller
Men should have more time with their newborn babies.
~ Megyn Kelly
I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.
~ Eartha Kitt
The first was a completely reliable oral contraceptive: the second was an equally infallible method—as certain as fingerprinting, and based on a very detailed analysis of the blood—of identifying the father of any child. The effect of these two inventions upon human society could only be described as devastating, and they had swept away the last remnants of the Puritan aberration.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.
~ Iyanla Vanzant