A DNA
test result has shown a set of twins with different fathers (and yes..it is
very possible)
This happened when a Passaic County woman sought child-support payments from a man
she thought was the father of her daughters, who were born in January 2013.
According
to Dailymail,The mother, who was in a relationship with the man at the time of
conceiving, admitted to having a sexual relationship with another man in the
same week
Paternity tests showed the man was almost certainly
the father of one but wasn't the father of the other and he must now pay $28
per week, for just his daughter.
Mohammad says he found just two other court cases
nationally on such matters.
An academic study in 1997 found that twins have
different fathers in one out of every 13,000 reported paternity cases involving
twins.
Here is what happens:
It is
possible - but rare - for a woman to give birth to twins with two fathers,
which is known as heteropaternal superfecundation.
It
happens when the woman has sexual intercourse with two different men in the
same week. It occurs when she releases two eggs during a menstrual cycle and
the men fertilize one egg each.
The
window for this to happen is around five to seven days.
An
academic study in 1997 found that twins have different fathers in one out of
every 13,000 reported paternity cases involving twins.
Superfecundation
by the same father is thought to be a common occurrence - that is, one man
fertilizes two eggs during separate instances of sexual intercourse - but it
can only be proven to have occurred with multiple fathers.
There is
also a phenomenon called superfetation, where a second twin is conceived weeks
or even months later on in the pregnancy. This occurs when a woman continues to
ovulate even after becoming pregnant and when a second fertilized egg implants
itself in the lining of the womb. It is still not known why this is able to
occur. Both babies will be born in the same delivery, with one being born
prematurely.
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