Ted's family might have other ideas about him getting to know this child. If I were one of Ted's teenage children, I wouldn't welcome a bastard child into my life with open arms. I wouldn't want anything to do with him and wouldn't want him around because it would hurt my Mom.
What a meanspirited thing to say. It's not the child's fault.
hey now, lets' not call a kid a bastard child, that is just tacky. The kid did nothing to deserve what his mother and father did. He is a innocent victim of it.
I do agree that if I was Ted's children with his wife they may not be to happy to have a half sibling be a part of their family since it s a child that he had with someone other than their mother. However, Ted should have thought about his kids feelings when he started spreading his seed. His responsibility is to all his children. He should get to know his child out of wedlock and I hope he does. If it means that the kids with Shemane have to get some counseling to help them cope than so be it. But I'm not Ted and who knows what he is going to do. I just think if he really cared for this child, he would have a relationship with him/her.
What an odd thing to say. If the teenage kids or mom are upset, it should be at their father who betrayed all of them. Of course, it is easier to blame the child.
Your decision to call him a 'bastard' is perverse irony.