It is often said that while you can never be in doubt about who your mother is, the same cannot be said about your father.

When I was growing up in my little African village, there was a fellow who lost his mind after his wife of many years got saved and declared that all his five children were, in fact, bicupuli (not his).

A couple of my friends have been assigned children they are not too sure are theirs. "I'm a very unlucky man," one of them often says. "Each time I go out with a woman, that is another child." The last time I counted, he had eight.

Given the type of women he goes out with, I am not surprised. This is a guy who is good looking, smart and has quite a bit of money. But for some inexplicable reason, he goes out with less than average women - uneducated and not so cute. To these women, he is nothing but manna from heaven. Who is to blame them when they allocate him their babies - whether he is the real father or not? Any good mother wishes her kid the best!

Unfortunately, DNA technology is starting to spoil the party for the women. Ask former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith who, before her tragic death, decided that although she hadn't been exactly zero grazing, the father of her kid was a high-flying lawyer. Up popped two other men, claiming to be the real father of the kid.

"Given the timing of when the child was born, both Nicole and I are in no doubt that I am the father," the lawyer reportedly declared.

It turns out that the confident lawyer is not the father. According to DNA results, the real father is an entertainment reporter and photographer (thumbs up for my fellow scribe).

Then there is the Ghanaian man who, according to the New York Times, had his children back in Ghana take DNA tests to prove they are his kids so that they could get immigration visas to the United States. When the results came in, the man was devastated to find that only the oldest of his three sons was, in fact, his son.

Which is why Wang has every intention of doing DNA paternity tests on all his future children. You can't trust any woman on these things. Thank God that DNA technology has come around before anybody claimed that I was the father of their kid.

Of course before DNA technology, there was the crude method of hitting your - err - "thingy" on the baby's head. According to this African "science", the baby would die if it wasn't yours.

But this is a method you would never use unless you were the murderous type, which, most certainly, I am not. I may not want to be saddled with kids who are not mine, but murdering them is most definitely not the way to take care of the problem.

Which is why DNA technology is such a blessing.

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