American Women More Likely Than Men to Have Babies by Multiple Partners... Census: American Women More Likely Than Men to Have Babies by Multiple Partners April 20, 2017 | American women are more likely than American men to have multiple babies by multiple partners, according to a recently released Census Bureau report.
Interesting. Although I will have to disagree with idea that a woman cannot have a single child by multiple partners. If the off spring is a chimera by which the two zygotes that merged were fertilized by two different men, then the single child would have the DNA of all three parents. It is unlikely, by possible. The question would be whether an event would ever occur that would cause the, to find the two sets of DNA.
And that has happened once that we know of. Lydia Fairchild. In short, the DNA of her reproductive bits was different than the DNA in the rest of her. She almost faced legal repercussions as a result since they thought she was committing some sort of fraud to get public assistance.
Uh no, at least for what I was talking about. Fairchild was the results of only two parents. Two different zygotes, yes, but still the same parents. In relation to the thread I was talking about if a woman say had a threesome with two men and each of their sperm fertilized an egg each and then the two merged. Only then could you say that the individual was due to multiple partner fertility.
I was referring to the fact that chimerism has already happened. Yes in her case it was fraternal twins from the same parent DNA. It does bring up some interesting possibilities. Multiple eggs can fertilized by multiple partners. http://www.nj.com/passaic-county/in...e_different_fathers_passaic_county_judge.html So...what if the fertilizations produce two males. One of the males is absorbed by the other and they become a chimera. Now suppose one testicle had one set of DNA and the other had a different set. That could be interesting.
Because Chimerism has already happened, and in several documented cases, is why I used that as an example. Now I have yet to read where a given system was developed by two different sets of DNA. Just where different systems were. However given that conjecture, I would then say the reverse were to be true if a chimeric woman's overies were to be developed by two different sets of DNA. Actually reading the article again, this is exactly the situation I was talking about, if the twins were to become a chimeric individual in the womb. The resultant individual would have three parents, genetically.
Would it? In the case of Fairchild, the majority of her had one set of DNA while her reproductive system had another. The children produced were hers biologically, but not genetically. Hence the problem. Her donation of DNA came from her ovaries and the DNA contained therein. It was different enough that genetically, the mother was classified as an aunt. If the ovaries had a mixture of Lydia's DNA as well as the DNA of her unborn, absorbed twin...then the Social Services would have gotten results back from the DNA test that would have shown her to be a Maternal DNA donor. There may have been anomalies, but it would have showed her to be more closely related than an aunt.
