%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Paternity Fraud¡¯ and the Invisible Child
%A Turney
%A Lyn
%A Wood
%A Paula
%J Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society
%D 2007
%I 
%X This article analysed Australian newspaper coverage of the Magill v Magill case, a landmark legal case in which a man sued his wife for ¡®paternity deceit¡¯. Using results from a thematic analysis of newspaper reporting of the Magill v Magill case from 2002-2006, it investigates the way the story has been framed in Australian newspapers as ¡®paternity fraud¡¯ and what that means for how DNA paternity testing is understood and used. The article then compares the findings with a later magazine report of interviews with the Magill children. The results show that, while the father and child¡¯s relationship was central to the DNA paternity test itself, the way the story was framed as a gender contest between adults was so powerful that children and their interests became invisible.
%K DNA paternity testing
%K father/child relationship
%K ¡®paternity fraud¡¯
%K media framing
%K infidelity
%K misattributed paternity
%U http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/ajets/journal/V5N2/pdf/Article4-TURNEY.pdf