If NeceSSitY iS THe MotHer oF InVenTion, Who'S YoUR DaDDy?


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Life is hard...and that is all I have to say about that. For me, it's not about what disaster befalls you, no sir! It's how you look at life overall. I attempt to find the lighter side of all situations, be it ever so inappropriate. (And boy howdy, have I had some situations to wade through!) Whether it be cancer (not me, him), kids (middle schoolers are the worst--you know what I'm talking bout here!), marriage (thar she blows), spouses, work, friends and enemies, pets, pandemics be damned; lions and tiger and bears! Oh my! Life is messy! If Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, Who's Your Daddy? takes a look at the lighter side of some real-life screwups. Have you ever thought about purchasing a handgun and then peed yourself on your maiden voyage to the gun range? Maybe you have chased down a stolen car--your own car? Perhaps, you are familiar with grandsons and their lovies? Have you ever been kidnapped? (Well, me neither, but I have a plan formulated in my mind should it ever occur.) Have ya got baggage? (Not the kind you carefully pack and then watch from the window as it is kicked, dragged, and heaved into the belly of a jumbo jet where it will be tossed end over end like a spring mix salad for hours, then scuffed, slammed, and crushed under the weight of hundreds of other bags while being driven across the tarmac in a downpour to an awaiting conveyor belt to hell.) I have a steamer trunk full! They say that laughter is the best medicine? Well, I have no idea who they are, but I am pretty sure they are closely related to everybody else's and nobody else's mom--just saying!




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Paternity


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“In this rigorous and beautifully researched volume, Milanich considers the tension between social and biological definitions of fatherhood, and shows how much we still have to learn about what constitutes a father.” —Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity For most of human history, the notion that paternity was uncertain appeared to be an immutable law of nature. The unknown father provided entertaining plotlines from Shakespeare to the Victorian novelists and lay at the heart of inheritance and child support disputes. But in the 1920s new scientific advances promised to solve the mystery of paternity once and for all. The stakes were high: fatherhood has always been a public relationship as well as a private one. It confers not only patrimony and legitimacy but also a name, nationality, and identity. The new science of paternity, with methods such as blood typing, fingerprinting, and facial analysis, would bring clarity to the conundrum of fatherhood—or so it appeared. Suddenly, it would be possible to establish family relationships, expose adulterous affairs, locate errant fathers, unravel baby mix-ups, and discover one’s true race and ethnicity. Tracing the scientific quest for the father up to the present, with the advent of seemingly foolproof DNA analysis, Nara Milanich shows that the effort to establish biological truth has not ended the quest for the father. Rather, scientific certainty has revealed the fundamentally social, cultural, and political nature of paternity. As Paternity shows, in the age of modern genetics the answer to the question “Who’s your father?” remains as complicated as ever.