The government will stand firm on its policy of demanding DNA tests from China-born children who want to move here with their Taiwanese mothers or fathers, an official said yesterday.
Despite objections from parents who say the DNA tests are cruel, Taiwan began ordering the exams three years ago for residency applications that seemed suspicious, Chang Cheng-chung, an Interior Ministry official, said.
"We've found many false cases, mostly children claiming to be born of Taiwanese fathers who apparently are too old to make their wives pregnant," Chang said.
A Chinese-language newspaper reported yesterday that hospitals have been crowded with fathers who want to get DNA tests so that their China-born children can start school in the fall.
The report said that one 76-year-old man was in tears because a test indicated that he wasn't the father of his 8-year-old son.
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