Every family is complicated in their own way. Usually, we learn how to work through our challenges or quirks, but when there are Earth-shattering secrets hidden under the surface for years, or even decades, there’s always a chance they’ll find a way to be exposed.
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Not the same, but my biological father raised my older brother and sister(each from different douche bags) as his own when my brother was 6 and my sister was 3. I was the happy accident. My brother and sister don’t talk to their biological fathers, and call “my” dad Dad. I’ve never once heard him refer to either as stepson or stepdaughter. He explained it to his angry mother like so: “I married a woman with children; they are my children now.” My dad kicks a*s.
Not a father, or even a male for that matter. But a buddy of mine was taking care of a child that he was pretty sure was his. When I asked why he didn’t have a paternity test, he basically said “Why would I? Even if she isn’t mine, she still needs a dad. Growing up my father wasn’t around much, and I couldn’t sleep at night knowing I allowed that to happen to her.” He’s a good dude.
When I worked as a journalist, I got involved with reporting on a father whose son had a rare medical disorder that guaranteed his death before age 10. It was a heartbreaking story. The family were incredibly kind people. This kid couldn’t feed or clean himself, was regularly hospitalized with seizures, was on all kinds of expensive medication, and required 24-7 supervision.As I researched the disease, I found that both parents had to be carriers of a specific gene for the child to get the disease. I asked the dad about it one day after working with them for several months - how he felt about the possibility that this could happen again if he ever remarried and had kids (the sick kid’s mother and he had divorced. The dad and his mother and father were the sick kid’s care givers). He revealed to me that he’d actually been tested for it shortly after they found out the kid was sick, only to discover that he didn’t carry the gene and his wife had cheated on him. The boy’s actual father was nowhere to be found and wasn’t involved at all. The boy’s mother was barely involved with him, so there was this poor guy suffering heart-crushing agony at watching this kid - who wasn’t even his - wither away and die tragically. It was gut-wrenching.Like I said, the father and his family members were among the best people I’ve ever met.
My Father was in this situation. He raised me and my brother like we were his own, and we never thought anything different up until the day he died. He gave us everything we could ever want, regardless of his own limitations of being a quadriplegic.My sperm donor, T. Sorak, was/is a fg piece of st who couldn’t be bothered to answer a goddamn phone call to try and get a medical history. Fk you Tom, you f**g sack of st.
My brother found out around the time his daughter was 7 or 8. He never told anybody but me and his current wife. She still thinks she’s his and he payed every penny of child support until she was 18 even though she lived with him the entire time. My brother is the man I wish i was ethically.
My youngest sibling is not my fathers and he has known since she was born. But nothing has ever stopped him treating her as one of his own.He wasn’t going to tell her until she is old enough to understand but we have one of those gossip aunties in our family who tells everyone everything. So she found out.She asks my father if it’s true and all he said was “Yes. But you should have been my daughter from the start.” (or something to that Liam Neeson acting extent)she gave him a hug and that was that who cares if it’s not your biological child. If you’ve been there for them since they were born then they might as well be.
Not my story. Had an acquaintance who had found out on his son’s 18th birthday that he wasn’t the biological father. He wanted to be responsible for his actions and paid into child support and spent as much time with the kid as possible when he found out the kid existed. The father ended up telling his son that no matter who that kid’s daddy was he was the man who loved him, so he was his real father no matter what. They ended up moving in together and the son resented his mother for trying to hurt his father and lying to both of them his entire life. Last I heard the son still won’t talk to his mother.
Not me but some people I know -This guys girlfriend went to her employers christmas party, got drunk and banged a co-worker. She became pregnant and she just let her boyfriend believe the child was his. When she delivered there was some medical issue, don’t know the specifics, that exposed the fact that she cheated and he could not possibly be the child’s biological father.They talked about it and he decided to raise the child as if it was his own. His name went on the birth certificate.A little while later the mother got into drugs and left him and the child. Now this guy is alone raising a child that is not his. Whenever I see him he just looks so down and depressed. I feel like giving him a hug.
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I found out after he started to have none of my features at all. Got a dna test and sure enough, he wasn’t mine. I quickly noped out of that marriage, won my house in court, sold it and moved to a different country. Haven’t looked back since and moving to England was one of the best decisions of my life.
My dad found out I wasn’t his, biologically, when I was 18.He didn’t speak to me for ten years. We’ve reconnected fairly recently.
I found out my dad wasn’t my biological father when I was 25. My mom had cheated, resulting in me, and lived the next 25 years with that hanging over her head. Everyone in my family, parents and two brothers, found out before I did. It really hasn’t changed anything. I have never met my biological father and I don’t really think he is interested either.
Not me but a friend of a friend. Mum passed away. Dad moved abroad. Dad wanted to live with his 2 daughters abroad and has to do a paternity (or dna?) test as part of process. Turns out both daughters aren’t his. Last i heard they’re on good terms
This happened to my uncle. He had three girls with his ex-wife. Two of which he found out weren’t his when they turned around 15. He still loves them, though. He spoils them and would do anything for them. They don’t know; however, he’ll joke about it, but they’re always totally oblivious.
There is a family friend of mine that raised a son who wasn’t biologically related to him (his ex-wife’s boyfriend’s kid) and he only told him right before he went off to college. They get along fine, I don’t get what all the fuss is about a child needing to be biologically related.
Didn’t happen to me but I have a friend who discovered the daughter he’d been providing for wasn’t his. She was a belligerent little c**t who use to say how she hated him and hoped he was dead. The real father tried to contact the mother and he recognized the real fathers features in the daughter. He demanded a paternity test and when it came back that he wasn’t the girls father he dropped her and her mother like a hot rock. He was gone and took every penny he was putting into their lives with them. The mother and daughter were in bad shape because they couldn’t get together enough money for the rent on their apartment and had to move in with the grandmother. My friend often said that he hoped such a thing would happen because he was sick of trying to take care of a daughter that hated and abused him. He was glad he had been putting money into a college fund for her, but decided to spend that money on himself in stead. As far as the bio-father goes, no one knows where he is. Supposedly he saw what a brat his daughter was and noped right out of there.
I’ve always been told I looked like my dad, but I’ve also been told that I looked like I would be this girl’s sister. The weird part is her dad used to like my mom and always wanted to date her… makes me wonder, because I’ve been told I favor him and his daughter.
Walked the fk out. Cleaned out the b*h’s bank account too
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