The youngest son of presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that he will take a paternity test to prove he is not the biological father of a 14-month-old child who lives in Arkansas.

Biden, 49, has agreed to be part of a biological test that will prove whether or not he fathered a child with 28-year-old Lunden Roberts, though he has maintained he will not be a DNA match when the results come back. The results of the test, however, will not affect a December court date with Roberts that Biden is already obliged to appear in.

Roberts maintains that Biden is the biological father of her child and that he has admitted as much to her in private, though he maintains not being involved in the public eye. Roberts, who says her child was born in August, has not confirmed whether it is a boy or girl.

Biden is the father of three children from his marriage to Kathleen Buhle, which ended in divorce in 2017. He has since dated the wife of his late brother, Beau Biden, and ultimately remarried in 2019 to Melissa Cohen, a filmmaker from South Africa. Hunter Biden has also notably struggled with alcohol and drugs throughout his life, admitting several times to needing assistance with his problems. "There's addiction in every family. I was in that darkness. I was in that tunnel — it’s a never-ending tunnel. You don’t get rid of it. You figure out how to deal with it," he said in July of this year.

Biden has most recently been under fire for his involvement with Burisma Holdings in Ukraine, an energy company that he served on the board of when his father was vice president of the United States. Biden's involvement with Bursima has raised eyebrows about his qualifications to be on the board and about the $50,000-per-month salary he made while serving in the position.