DNA
Fingerprinting has been used to associate parents
with their offspring. Following a 1976 military coup in
Argentina, thousands of persons including pregnant women were
confined in detention centers without trial or news of there
whereabouts to their families. Children born in detention were
forcibly abducted from their parents ["Los
desaparecidos" or "The
disappeared ones"].
After the Falkland Islands War and restoration of civilian
government in 1982, several international organizations used DNA fingerprinting
methods to associate these children with their parents.