Teenagers Abandon Dad When Test Shows They Aren't Related

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-02-06 03:03

Story here. Excerpt:

'Oh, my heart hurts today. In a twist on the standard child custody cases that make the news, a dad named Richard Rodwell is making news for getting back the child support he'd paid to his wife plus damages totalling $40,000. It turns out Rodwell really never needed to pay because his kids weren't really his kids at all.

Rodwell's ex-wife, Helen, had been lying to him for years. Eventually a paternity test proved the teenaged kids each had different fathers. But while this one is marked in the win column for the rights of men, I don't see any winners here.

Yes, Richard Rodwell got back the $25,000 he paid in child support over four years and then some when he proved his kids weren't his kids. But what's $40,000 compared to the love of your kids?

This poor man spent 17 and 14 years respectively thinking he had a daughter and a son. Now he has neither as both of the kids have cut him off. Despite his expressed interest in remaining in the children's lives, he says Helen turned them against him.'

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... she commits fraud on an on-going, grand basis, lying to her husband/ex-husband and children the whole time. He finds out and rightly sues her for it and rightly wins. The kids now blame their purported dad for this.

Aside from overpopulating the planet and running the very serious risks of even attempting to have kids with a woman these days (or not even attempting!), I'd say winding up with horrible children is another very good readon to avoid procreation. Sure, for some lucky fellows, it works out just fine. But these are now the exception, not the rule.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-02-06 03:08