As the sky-blue Winnebago makes its way through midday traffic in downtown Baltimore, pedestrians can’t help but stare.
Onlookers giggle and pull out their camera phones. The RV, painted with the phrase “Who’s Your Daddy?” offers a service most wouldn’t think of using during their lunch break: DNA testing.
Demand for such tests has grown in recent decades, as a legal tool in cases of child custody and paternity cases but also as an increasingly accepted way to confirm biological ties at a time when single motherhood has skyrocketed. Some family law experts, however, worry the growing use of such tests could have unintended consequences, such as destabilizing families and hurting children.
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