Posted on 05/07/2022 8:07:24 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
I remember reading some of Bob Rourke’s descriptions of tribal Africans. The men didn’t care who sired the child. The child belonged to the husband and that was the important thing.
Excellent points. And the child shouldn’t suffer no matter who pays for its food.
One thing that was brought out in the story is that the man is sterile and cannot have children. So the wife's drunken episode may have been an unconscious grasping to have a child once the "in love" part wore off and she faced a long life ahead without fulfilling her biological role.
They are both young, and they are also getting financial support for the child from her parents, so immaturity on all sides is abounding.
The guy tried to be a good guy from the beginning, and now she's trying to firm them up into a family, in spite of how she backed them into this situation. The biodad is completely unknown. It's a really sad dilemma for all concerned.
A divorce is probably best for the adults, and since she is young, she might be able to find someone to commit to both her and the child, but it still sucks for the child to lose contact with the only father figure he's ever known. This entire thing is bound to undermine the child's most basic sense of self-worth.
They all need Jesus.
Reading the comments to the story on Reddit, I saw that he is sterile and can't have children due to an injury before they were married. It may not have seemed so bad to her when they were 21 and got married, but possibly she began to feel that her life will be incomplete without children; so first she "fixed it" unconsciously, and now wants to "fix it" some more, but it's all falling apart.
Great immaturity. Sad, sad situation for the child.
Still, other posters are correct that the law in many states says that any child born during the marriage, biologically related to the father or not, is legally a child of the marriage and the legal responsibility of the man. Don't know which state he is in, tho.
I’d love to hunt Cape Buffalo and some selected plains game, but other than that I have no desire to live there either.
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