Can fraternal twins have different fathers?
A. Some women after becoming pregnant will ovulate again weeks later, and this second egg may be fertilized, resulting in fraternal twins of different gestational ages. That’s rare enough, says University of Virginia biologist Robert J. Huskey. Rarer still is “heteropaternal superfecundation,” or fraternal twins with different fathers. After a woman in China gave birth to different sex twins, the husband accused her of having sex with another man and refused responsibility for the children. Blood tests and enzyme markers proved he was indeed the father of the girl though not the boy. “Confronted with the evidence, the mother admitted to having sex with a second man within a three-day period at the time of conception,” reported the “Journal of Forensic Science.” Topping even this, a New York woman who went to the doc was mistakenly implanted with two fertilized eggs, then gave birth to “twin” boys: one White, one Black! One of the eggs was hers, but the other belonged to a different wom
