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President of the Fathers’ Association of Trinidad and Tobago Rhondall Feeles has revealed that one in three men who had paternity testing done at a judiciary certified lab over a five year period, were not the biological fathers of children.

He is calling for paternity tests to be made mandatory, to allow for there to be proof, before a child maintenance order is issued by the court.

Feeles was speaking at a news conference in Couva on Monday on the topic of legislating paternity fraud and addressing its mental health impact on men and children. He presented test data from between 2020 to September 2025 which his Association received from a DNA lab certified by the judiciary. “Out of those 440 tests we see paternity not being confirmed for as many as 143 men. Giving you a percentage of approximately 33 percent which is in other words saying that, out of those tested, one in every three men were not the biological parents of their children,” Feeles said.