--- title: Twins With Different Fathers: Mother's Discovery After Paternity Test description: The truth came out during a paternity case canonical: https://time.com/3851625/twins-different-fathers/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-08T14:38:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:05.308Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Mother Discovers Her Twins Have 2 Different Fathers og:description: The truth came out during a paternity case og:url: https://time.com/3851625/twins-different-fathers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mother Discovers Her Twins Have 2 Different Fathers twitter:description: The truth came out during a paternity case twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mother Discovers Her Twins Have 2 Different Fathers by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley May 8, 2015 2:38 PM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley May 8, 2015 2:38 PM CUT A New Jersey woman [found out](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/nyregion/paternity-case-for-a-new-jersey-mother-of-twins-bears-unexpected-results-two-fathers.html "undefined") that her twins had been fathered by two different men in a Passaic County paternity case. The woman, identified only as T.M., was applying for public assistance and named her romantic partner as the father of both children, the New York _Times_ reports. In the course of testimony, she admitted to sleeping with a different man about a week after she believed she had conceived the twins with her partner. This prompted a paternity test, which revealed that each man had fathered one of the twins, who are now toddlers. The original partner, identified as A.S., will now only pay child support for one of the children. This kind of occurrence is rare, but not unheard of—a doctor testified that 1 in 13,000 paternity cases for twins involve two different fathers. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/nyregion/paternity-case-for-a-new-jersey-mother-of-twins-bears-unexpected-results-two-fathers.html "undefined")\] _Read next:_ [_The Science of How Women Can Have Twins With 2 Different Fathers_](http://time.com/3851843/twins-complications/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ### See the Funniest and Weirdest Baby Photos  Shot for TIME, 2015 Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Shot for Huggies, 2011 Evan Kafka  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2011 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3851625/twins-different-fathers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3851625/twins-different-fathers/"},"headline":"Mother Discovers Her Twins Have 2 Different Fathers","datePublished":"2015-05-08T14:38:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:05.308Z","description":"The truth came out during a paternity case","url":"https://time.com/3851625/twins-different-fathers/","keywords":["Courts","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/courts/","name":"Courts"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3851625/twins-different-fathers/","name":"Mother Discovers Her Twins Have 2 Different Fathers"}}]}] ```