\’Deadbeat dads\’ who refuse to pay for their offspring face DNA database checks in child maintenance crackdown

By Daily Mail 07/25/2015

\”Absent fathers suspected of faking paternity tests to avoid paying child maintenance will have their DNA checked against police records in a new crackdown.

Officials fear there is a growing trend of ‘deadbeat dads’ trying to get out of supporting their families by fraudulently denying they are the father of their children. 

Several men have been convicted in recent months of sending friends – or even strangers – to GP surgeries in order to take DNA tests in their place. …\”

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