Gawker - Dallas Woman Births Twins Fathered By Different Men - Mia Washington

[davidfcooper]

Gawker - Dallas Woman Births Twins Fathered By Different Men - Mia Washington

Apparently this sort of happening is quite rare, but entirely possible! They even have a term for it—-"heteropaternal superfecundation."

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[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Probably not so rare -- every reference I've read says that in American culture, about 10% of us don't have the fathers that we're supposed to. Applying that to the approx. 1-in-200 pregnancies that are twins suggests that 1-in-500 pregnancies has this condition (2 chances at being misconceived per twin pregnancy), or about 0.4% of the population is from such pregnancies, about 1.2 million people in the US.