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...have children “in her 30s, before 35.” In fact, although Hewlett points to an epidemic of women wanting to have children later than biologically possible, many Harvard women set on having a career admit that they do not want to be older parents. Pasha M. Coupet ’02, who is attending Columbia Law School next year, says she will never want to be on a partner track at a law firm because she wants to have children before she is 30. Brennan says because her parents are still less than 50 years...
Class marshals would not go into detail about this year’s search process, but they said Franken’s connection to Harvard as an alum and parent of an undergraduate helped their cause...
While the decline of the two-parent family in Germany may worry traditionalists, it has proved a boon for a growing number of biotech companies specializing in paternity tests. "Since 1998 the number of orders has increased tenfold," boasts Kirsten Thelen, co-founder of Wiesbaden's ID Lab, which prepared 4,000 DNA fingerprints last year. Says Thelen: "The demand has existed for a long time, but now word has got around that there is an affordable way to obtain proof of parenthood...
...sounds expensive until you consider the ?2,000 it costs to obtain an official certificate of parentage. While the official certificate identifies paternity through a series of blood analyses, the commercial test, based on state-of-the-art genetic-research technology, establishes parentage by comparing the genetic profile of parent and child through the so-called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It takes would-or-would-not-be fathers only a phone call, an e-mail or a quick visit to the local pharmacy to get the kit containing test tubes and sterile cotton-wool sticks for swabbing the inside...
Privacy advocates are leery of the tests, since they are frequently performed without the knowledge of the second parent or the child. In fact, the DNA labs often get used toothbrushes or pacifiers from their customers instead of the normally requested mouth swabs. The majority of labs will also use these personal effects to extract DNA samples. Because he considers surreptitious genetic fingerprinting "a massive invasion of personal privacy," Joachim Jacob, Germany's Commissioner for Data Protection, is moving to ban DNA paternity tests. It's unfair that "the unauthorized opening of a letter is a criminal offense, while clandestine...