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[Handley_Page]

From the Daily Telegraph:
A father at the centre of Britain’s first known case of paternity fraud involving IVF has called for the introduction of routine DNA testing in divorce after he was tricked into raising another man’s child as his own for six years.


Try getting the details: HERE,

I hope she was insured. . . .

 

[lovecraft68]

Man I hope LJ reloaded doesn't get hold of this on the GB there's 6 threads worth of "feminist this and feminist that" in that article by his standards.

As for the article itself....good for him I am sure this happens a lot more often than we would like to think about.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Isn't the progress of civilization a wondrous thing.

 

[SandraMustard]

I thought of a possible variation of this deceit when I asked myself, why didn't the wife just fuck her boyfriend and get pregnant? Then she could have told her husband the child was from the IVF. I bet I'll hear about problems with my plot but LW trolls would still go bat-shit crazy over it.

 

[PennLady]

What a mess, and that poor kid.

 

[Handley_Page]

What a mess, and that poor kid.

Exactly.
I think Mum should be chucked in the chokey for a while . . .

I wonder if the injured 'Dad' could sue for repayment of his cash ?

 

[lovecraft68]

Exactly.
I think Mum should be chucked in the chokey for a while . . .

I wonder if the injured 'Dad' could sue for repayment of his cash ?

It says he cannot get back that money he is getting quite a bit for emotional damages and other "maintenance money"

But a couple of things. This woman did not have an affair, this was an ex's sperm used instead of the husbands so I am wondering....shouldn't whoever handled this insemination be on the hook for something?

The other tone of the article I don't like is how he has "lost his son"

Now I understand this is a huge emotional blow to him, that biologically the kid is not his, but....

He loved and raised this child as his own...so all of a sudden this stops? He no longer loves the boy? Its now all about money? I hope not, the article is not too detailed, but the tone of "a son he never had" is very sad to this child.

The child sees him as the father and you know what? In that kids eyes he is dad. Making a huge deal about this really does a number on the kid...

I'm a foster kid. I was put in a home when I was eleven. I'm 47 now and those wonderful people are my mom and dad and their other foster kid is my sister.

You do not have to be blood to be family, you don't. So I hope for the kids sake the father is not going to be a tool about this and act like the kid is a puppy he can drop off at a pound or use him as a way to get money.

Because that would be just as cruel the trick played on him, maybe more so.

 

[49greg]

Exactly.
I think Mum should be chucked in the chokey for a while . . .

I wonder if the injured 'Dad' could sue for repayment of his cash ?

Yes, exactly. I wonder if the 'boyfriend' could be sued to repay the husband for the child maintenance. The article talked about the hubby not being allowed to get it from the wife, but what if he went after the boyfriend, who had to be an accessory before the fact.

 

[glynndah]

It says he cannot get back that money he is getting quite a bit for emotional damages and other "maintenance money"

But a couple of things. This woman did not have an affair, this was an ex's sperm used instead of the husbands so I am wondering....shouldn't whoever handled this insemination be on the hook for something?

The other tone of the article I don't like is how he has "lost his son"

Now I understand this is a huge emotional blow to him, that biologically the kid is not his, but....

He loved and raised this child as his own...so all of a sudden this stops? He no longer loves the boy? Its now all about money? I hope not, the article is not too detailed, but the tone of "a son he never had" is very sad to this child.

The child sees him as the father and you know what? In that kids eyes he is dad. Making a huge deal about this really does a number on the kid...

I'm a foster kid. I was put in a home when I was eleven. I'm 47 now and those wonderful people are my mom and dad and their other foster kid is my sister.

You do not have to be blood to be family, you don't. So I hope for the kids sake the father is not going to be a tool about this and act like the kid is a puppy he can drop off at a pound or use him as a way to get money.

Because that would be just as cruel the trick played on him, maybe more so.

From the way I read this, the man wants to have an ongoing relationship with the boy but the courts are not allowing this.

 

[lovecraft68]

From the way I read this, the man wants to have an ongoing relationship with the boy but the courts are not allowing this.

I don't understand why the courts would not allow it...I know the reason would be he is not biological, but in this case you have to look at the circumstances and again...is anyone thinking of this kid? I'm sure he loves his dad.

 

[49greg]

I don't understand why the courts would not allow it...I know the reason would be he is not biological, but in this case you have to look at the circumstances and again...is anyone thinking of this kid? I'm sure he loves his dad.

Whatever the reasons are, the courts usually give custody to the wife. I did work with a man once who had custody of two young ones. He was a mess, wore the same ratty T-shirt every day for a week, smelled of unwashed clothes and unwashed body, used chew (yuck) and had cups all up and down his work bench filled with the spit. The job paid well even if it was tough and the conditions were hot, but he spent so much on booze and fancy car and TV and boat etc that he had to hire homeless people to take care of his kids at night while he worked swing shift.

We used to wonder how bad his ex-wife had to be so that he could win custody.

 

[glynndah]

I don't understand why the courts would not allow it...I know the reason would be he is not biological, but in this case you have to look at the circumstances and again...is anyone thinking of this kid? I'm sure he loves his dad.

It does make one wonder, doesn't it?