French Immigrants & Adultery

This from Slate.com:

The French government is facing a backlash for trying to DNA-test aspiring immigrants.Objections: 1) It's a double standard, since legal family relationships among French natives don't require a genetic bond. 2) Ditto for privacy: No native has to submit to such testing. 3) It's reminiscent of collaboration with the Nazis. 4) It's cheap anti-immigrant politics. 5) Genetics has no place in human rights. Rebuttals: 1) It's voluntary. 2) It's free. 3) It's needed only when you can't produce other good evidence of a family relationship. 4) Eleven other European countries do it, so what's the big deal? 5) We'll try it for 18 months and drop it if it's a problem. 6) We'll just test maternity, to spare you the pain of discovering that your dad isn't really your dad. (Related: previous update on the French proposal.) If you claim to be related to a French resident, the legislation would offer "voluntary" testing to prove it.

I really like the part where they aren't going to test paternity. Wouldn't that be a shocker for a bunch of folks? (See previous posts on rates of infidelity) There doesn't appear to be a genealogical loophole if you can prove you are related to some long-dead Frenchman, however. A shame, since that would likely mean that all of us could move to France!

The other issue that this bill has raised is the definition of "family" for many of the immigrants. In Africa, "family" may consist of uncles, cousins, and others that are related through marriage or more distant/non-existent DNA relationships.