Who's Your Daddy mobile DNA testing rolls into existence
Posted by blogs.babycenter.com on August 17 2012

DNA testing has gone mobile with the creation of the Who’s Your Daddy Truck [insert Maury Povich joke here]! Yes, it’s now possible to find out if “you are not the father!” from a roving — yet court-legal — establishment.

Who’s Your Daddy DNA testing has debuted in New York City, ready to help nearly anyone with $350 prove a biological (or lack thereof) link to someone else. The mobile testing unit, brainchild of Jared Rosenthal and Health Street claims to be born of the saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

”I couldn’t afford to rent an office, so I thought, we can convert the RV to a mobile office,” Rosenthal explained to ABC recently of his mobile paternity-testing vehicle. “DNA really gets at a person’s identity, it gets to the core of their identity, who your parents are, who your children are, how you define yourself ethnically and culturally.”

“People think DNA testing is like what they see on TV,” the Who’s Your Daddy creator also commented during a video interview with a local ABC affiliate. “But what they see on TV is fighting and people who don’t get along. We rarely see that. We see dad’s who want to know if it’s their kid.”

“Something about the RV makes it more intimate and people open up. It makes it easier for them,” he added to theNew York Post. “I get a lot of military requests [to test kids]. I think when they’re away, they want the assurance.”

We’ve talked about the need for paternity testing before here at BabyCenter, and one comment that seems to come up repeatedly is that if a guy has suspicions he needs to “man up” and ask for a test. That, however, is a conversation that rarely goes over smoothly. In reading about Rosenthal’s mobile office I’m pleased by the idea of easier access to testing, but feel mixed about the notion the testing could be going on without the mother of the child’s knowledge.

From what I can tell, a man can legally get a DNA test done on a child without the mother’s permission as long as he is a legal guardian (most likely meaning his name is listed on the birth certificate). A grandparent or other legally appointed guardian could also provide consent.

Therefore, next time kiddo and daddy head to the park there’s a possibility they’ll be doing more than playing on the swings if a certain RV happens to be parked nearby.

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