Can twins have different fathers?

Answer 1

yes, fraternal twins can have different fathers, two different eggs, two different fathers- it doesn't happen very often but it does occur

Answer 2

Yes - this is extremely rare and can only happen with FRATERNAL twins. What happens is that the woman ovulates two eggs at the same time (this happens a lot when women come from families with twins). During the two weeks while both eggs are travelling down the fallopian tube, the woman has sex with two different partners. The sperm from one partner reaches one egg and fertilizes it. The sperm from the other partner reaches the other egg and fertilizes that one. Paternity tests will need to be used to determine which baby belongs to which father. The twins may be boy&boy, girl&girl, or boy&girl, but will not be identical - they will fraternal.

Identical twins ALWAYS have the same father, however.

Answer 3

Not only is it possible for fraternal twins to have different fathers, it’s on the medical record books. This official medical term for this phenomenon is heteropaternal superfecundation.

The classic case was recorded in 1810 by John Archer, the first doctor to receive a medical degree in the U.S. According to Dr. Archer, a white woman who had sex with a black man and a white man within a short time of each other subsequently gave birth to twins—one white, one mulatto. Other cases have been reported since.

Sperm cells can live inside a woman’s body for four to five days. Once ovulation occurs, the egg remains viable for another 12 to 48 hours before it begins to disintegrate; thus, the fertile period can span five to seven days.

Making it possible to give birth to twins from 2 different fathers.

Answer 4

Fraternal twins can, identical twins can not.

Identical twins form when one fertilized egg splits.

Fraternal twins come from two separate eggs that have been fertilized by two spearate spermatozoa, so if a woman has sex with two male partners close in time, and ovulates two eggs (not common, but it does happen), and each egg is fertilized with a sperm from a different donor, then the twins will have different fathers.

Answer 5

Yes they can but why does everyone assume that she is pregnant with the twins? People like to make nasty assumptions on answers and it's pretty sad and no it isn't a dumb question. I have only heard of one case like this and it was because the girl was sleeping with several men in a single night.

Answer 6

Yes. There was a well-documented case in Germany where a woman slept with a black man and a white man within a few hours of each other. 9 months later she had one caucasian baby and one half-black baby. Fraternal twins.

Answer 7

it is biologically possible if the twins are fraternal (and divorce and adoption have nothing to do with it). fraternal twins differ genetically just like any other siblings carried and born separately are. two different men could impregnate the same woman during the same cycle if the woman's ovaries released two eggs.

Answer 8

Yes it can happen.Especially if the mother sleeps with two different men in a 24 hour period.It's rare,very rare but happens.Montel Williams had a incident on his show before it was about four years ago I thought oh no way,but it was so.T he lady said she notice that the son looked like the man she was with the night before and the daughter looked liked her fiancee.And she was right.

Answer 9

as already stated it is possible with fraternal twins.
there was a show on discovery about a british couple who got pregnant with the help of fertility treatments and there was a mix up with the sperm. one child is white and one is black. i think the kids are about 15 now.

Answer 10

I had never heard anything like that but now after reading all these responses i have learnt something new. It was a simple theory which i was not aware of.