Strange Paternity Stories That Nearly Tore Families Apart
As Tolstoy once said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” And if you’ve ever seen an episode of “The Maury Show” before, you’d know that’s the truth!
These real life stories all involve suspicions about a child’s paternity, and whether the man in question turned out to be the father or not, a lot of drama happened in the meantime.
Everyone Had Their Suspicions
I was once privy to a situation where a state senator and his wife had a baby. She claimed the baby was premature, but it was very clearly not.
Not only that, but the senator had a little “secret”—he was very obviously gay.
He winked at me several times and asked for my phone number. Then, another man came in. He had a prominent forehead, short arms, and a tiny nose…JUST. LIKE. THE. BABY!!!
Everyone had their suspicions about the situation, but nobody actually found out for sure until about a year later when the woman finally admitted it.
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He Fled Town
My co-worker’s wife had a complicated delivery, but for some reason, they gave the baby a genetic test. I think they were looking for some inherited gene that can only come from both parents. The doctors ended up telling him there was no way it was his baby.
That was bad enough, but it gets worse—it turns out that none of his four kids were his.
His newborn, his six-year-old, his 10-year-old, and his 16-year-old all belonged to someone else. His 16-year-old tried to end his own mom and the 10-year-old ran away after the false father cleaned out their savings. The real fathers turned out to be various coworkers of the husband who fled town.
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My Last Deployment
When I was in the Navy, I had an on-again-off-again relationship with a girl back home. On my last deployment, my girlfriend told me via email that she was knocked up. I accepted it, emailed my parents, told the army, and went through all that jazz.
I ended up getting discharged, so I went back home and took care of my pregnant girlfriend. She had the baby and I thought I was the father for five months.
After that, she went on vacation with a “girlfriend.”
While she was gone, I got an email that changed everything—it was from her boyfriend, who told me that they had been together for the last four months and also for the week in Myrtle Beach when I was bankrolling. After that, I got a paternity test and found out the child wasn’t mine.
I told her I was done and wanted no contact.
The horrible part is that my parents still babysit and treat the kid like their grandkids, so she’s at a lot of family functions and such. Also, the guy she was with wasn’t even the father.
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For All Intents and Purposes
My boyfriend’s daughter is not his. He broke his hand on a door when he found out, but he never once denied her as his child. He is on her birth certificate, she has his last name, the whole nine yards. She is his baby girl and he is her daddy.
That’s the end of the story…or so he thought. His ex-wife likes to hold it above his head. “If you don’t do XYZ, I’m getting a DNA test on the baby and you’ll never see her again.” It burns me up!
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