Genetic Identity Testing and the Family: the articulation between biotechnology and family relationships, politics and policy

基因身份测试触及了家庭本身的本质。在人类历史上，第一次有可能以合理的确定性来确定父子关系--以及错误的父子关系。亲子鉴定成了父亲们的工具？儿童权利运动，并正在影响儿童支助政策的管理。各国政府目前正在就这一问题制定广泛的政策框架。然而，几乎没有关于亲子鉴定的社会研究。这项研究将为澳大利亚在一个随着DNA芯片技术的迅速发展将变得越来越重要的研究领域中发挥领导作用提供空间。

Genetic identity testing cuts to the very nature of the family itself. For the first time in human history, it is possible to identify paternity - and misattributed paternity - with reasonable certainty. Parentage testing has become a vehicle for the fathers? rights movement, and is influencing the management of child support policy. Governments are currently developing broad policy frameworks on this issue. Yet there is almost no social research on parentage testing. This study will provide scope for Australian leadership in an area of study that will become progressively more important with the rapid development of DNA chip technology.