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{{quote|''Telemachus took a deep breath and said: You want the truth, and I will give it to you. 
My My mother says that Odysseus is my father. 
I I don't know this myself. No one witnesses his own begetting.''|'''[[Homer]]''', ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The Odyssey]]''}}
 
Prior to the days of [[Daddy DNA Test|DNA testing]], it was impossible to verify a child's paternity, and the only evidence besides the word of the mother (who might not know herself in the subtrope [[Who's Your Daddy?]]) would be [[Chocolate Baby]] or other forms of [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]], whether to the putative father or the other man. A piece of knowledge embedded in such proverbs as, "It's a wise child who knows his own father," and "[[Trope Namer|Mama's baby, Papa's maybe]]."
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