[marajade]

"However, that does not relate to any of my other observations here."

Sure it does... my mother always had suspicions that my father wasn't faithful... maybe she's right... I already had a father who while in the home wasn't really there... if he'd been found to have fathered another kid and ordered to pay support to another family, it would have been the legitimate child that was conceived in a legitimate marriage that would have paid the price, monetarily and otherwise...

[Post Toasties]

Sorry, it really just doesn't because your mother's children are all her own, right?

[Post Toasties]

You now postulate a 'what if', but so what? I'd be disappointed if you are trying to turn this into something personal by making such a stretch.