UK: Dads by deception

Submitted by Broadsword on Fri, 2011-11-11 19:27

Article here. Excerpt:

'The email sent to Jack Goodchild this summer was short and to the point. Jack recalls: ‘Basically, it said: “I’m pregnant, it’s yours — but don’t worry, you won’t be having any involvement and we won’t be seeing each other any more.” 

It had been written by Tess, his on-off girlfriend of several months. And now it was all over. Having learned she was expecting his child, Tess apparently wanted nothing more to do with the father.

Moreover, the 41-year-old London businessman soon learned that this seemed to have been his lover’s plan all along. ‘I telephoned her straight away, as anyone would after receiving an email like that, to find out what was going on,’ he says.

‘I thought maybe there was some misunderstanding; that because we hadn’t talked about anything serious like starting a family, she assumed I wouldn’t be interested in the baby.

‘Instead, she said she had wanted to get pregnant, that she had “stolen” my sperm, and now she no longer wanted to be in touch. She was incredibly matter-of-fact about it; clinical even.’

As far as he knows, Jack’s baby is due some time in early spring, although Tess has made it clear she won’t be getting in touch to let him know when the day has arrived.'

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I was speaking with my ex-girlfriend tonite, and she told me about several conversations she had been having with women friends of hers. It seems that the women, for a wide variety of reasons, were blaming their mates, putting the men down, and expressing all sorts of venom about their men. To my ex-girlfriend's credit, with some of them, she did speak up, asking them whether their extreme hatred and anger was healthy for them. But even that question underscores the point I'm making here. It's all about the women, what's good for the women, what the women want. In these conversations that my ex had with these women, as she told me about them, the women never considered the impact on the involved man. It was like the men were not human, just something to be manipulated. This bothered me, and also bothered my ex. But this attitude is all around us, if you look for it. Effectively men are slaves and they are supposed to support, and protect women, and if the slaves don't do their job exactly the way the women want it, then the women are furious, and the men hear about it.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Sat, 2011-11-12 06:11

He "won’t be having any involvement???" Wanna bet? She'll want a good portion of his paycheck, if nothing else.

MAJ

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Submitted by digital_dreamer on Sat, 2011-11-12 06:31