Either through infidelity, a mixup, or just terrible luck, some dads find out later on in life that they aren’t the biological fathers of their children. Here are some stories of how that was the case.
Mom’s Boss
Reddit user OddCupOfTea wrote, “It happened to my dad. My mother revealed it in court when he was fighting for split custody over me after she decided to divorce him. I was six years old at the time, and I found out that I was seeing my actual father almost every day; he was my mom’s boss, and my mom promised him the world if he’d keep his mouth shut and said that she would return to him after divorce and make us a proper family.”
A Terrible Mixup
After 30 years, John Harvey had no reason to think anything was wrong with respect to his daughter. He and his wife had intrauterine insemination (IUI) in 1992 and were blessed with their daughter afterward, but not everything was as it seemed. They’d only find out much later that there was a mixup at the hospital, and it wasn’t John’s sperm that was mixed with his wife’s eggs to conceive their child. There was a mixup, and the wrong DNA was used, meaning that John isn’t his daughter’s genetic father. The couple are now suing the hospital that was responsible for the mistake.
Acting Odd
Reddit User Sevenstrats Wrote, “We suffered from fertility issues and did all the treatments for months, and after many inseminations she was pregnant…. And she started acting very odd about many things out of nowhere that I chalked up to her hormones. But still very odd behavior.”
“We have a baby boy. He’s healthy, and all seems well, but she’s still acting odd. Over the next five years, she works endlessly to keep a wedge between my boy and me. As if our forming a relationship is a bad thing.”
“We separate over many problems. And then I get the news from her: he’s not your boy, and she requests DNA as part of the divorce action. And it’s confined. I’m not the father, and it’s a friend of mine., who now wants to be with her and their child. I was ordered to stay away from their kid as a minor and no obligation for child support.”
Sources:
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