The DNA paternity test is a molecular methodology used to determine if two individuals are biologically bound or not. This process of comparing the genetic code of people was created by the British geneticist Alec Jeffreys in 1985 in the University of Leicester in England.
Since its creation this test has been used by judges to clarify the doubts in cases when men refuse to accept the paternity over children that are supposedly theirs. When the test indicates so, there’s no way to deny being the biological father, for the scientists ensure that the test has a 99,99% reliability rate.
True paternity however, goes much beyond of the simple acceptance of getting a woman pregnant. It is not enough to assume being the biological father of the new born. After the birth of the child, the father must care for it, and together with the mother must provide physical, emotional and spiritual support till the child reaches the majority age, and even beyond.
What would reveal a paternity test that could measure the care offered to our children while growing up; a test that would include the amount of the physical, emotional and spiritual condition of our children?
The word of God attributes to the father the tremendous responsibility of being the provider and teacher of his children. Alone he will never succeed in fulfilling it. More than the indispensable help from his wife he will need the fundamental help from the heavenly Father to accomplish it.
One of the biggest challenges of my life has been to take this true broader paternity test. Having to teach my own daughters, identifying in their behaviour my own behaviour mistakes and having to correct in them what was also wrong in me. Only accepting the heavenly Father’s paternity and correction over me, was I able to assume the ture paternity over my daughters to healthily raise them.
Alleluia, with God we can be true fathers!
- What physical, emotional and spiritual care did you receive from your father?
- How do you imagine the ideal father?
(To teach your children, Ephesians 6:4 / To lead your children, 1 Timothy 3:12)
TC let me divert you a little bit on your topic but this also speak on our identity in the Army... I would really like for you to open a platform probably someday as to why in the army we don't see an African General nor an African Chief of the staff except for Commissioner Israel Gaither who also declined his nomination to stand for the top position, why is this so? We have also witnessed Commissioner Conrad doing the same thing of declining his nomination, Is the Army doubting the capacity of Africans to lead? Is the African identity a problem in the Army?
ReplyDeleteThese are good questions and surely need consideration. There were other Aficans that also declined nomination, however I believe that much can be done to ensure that all High Council participants would arrive there with equal opportunity for election. That will be achieved when all officers, irrespectively of ethnicity and gender, are granted the same opportunity of development.
DeleteA father can only facilitate and provide an enabling environment for children to grow but children will choose whether to eat the fruit or not...
ReplyDeleteYes, the father is not responsible for their child's choice, but responsible for teaching them to make the right choice.
DeleteThank you for your strong message
ReplyDeleteYou are welcomed! The bibical teaching is always strong!
DeleteThe chalenge is to show our children that we are correcting our own mistakes.
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