Topic : 12/25 Parent Trap

If this mother is so sorry and remorseful for what she's done... why doesn't she do the morally ethical thing and stop taking child support from this man?!?  She's the one who perpetrated the lie... now her daughter pays the price!  I can't believe how smug she appeared on the stage!  She could do the "right" thing without involving the courts... she chooses not to!  This must be so frustrating to parents who are fighting ligitimate dead beat dads...  The irresponsibility and selfishness of this woman makes my blood boil!

I don't agree with how Enrique abdandoned his daughter, this will leave a lasting impression on who she is... I can only hope that she grows up to be a happy, well adjusted person... but it would seem that she is fighting an uphill battle considering who her parents are!  What a mess.

I think we are really looking at two seperate issues here emotional resposibility and financial responsibility.  A parent can be a parent without having financial resposibility by taking part in the childs life and providing emotional support.  That is what everyone agrees that the child should have. 

The financial responsibility falls on the shoulders of the DNA parents, our court systems are the first to slap the book at someone when they find that their DNA is a match, so why not slap the book at the mother when they find out that the DNA isn't a match.

What about the real father, if he came into the picture and decided he wanted rights, what rights would the court system say he had.  Would he then have to pay back child support to have those rights?   What if  the child wants to know her real dad, then what?

This all comes down to the mother not wanting to take personal responsibility from the beginning.  Women get all the say and men get to follow suit and open up the check book.  If a woman wants a child and the man doesn't, tuff, he gets to pay for the rest of his life, but if the man wants the child and the woman does not, tuff, its the womans body.  I'd like to know when does the man get a say?  They were both there when it happened and thats where his say ends!

There are alot of laws in the 21st century that need to be updated to catch up with our 21st century life styles.

I am a minister...and I don't know where your quote come from. Where is this in the Bible? " 

"Abstinence before marriage, complete monogamy after. " Der.

I can appreciate your anger about this situation, if it come from a place of responding to the child's losses. But how does your comments relate to the child and her loses? Consider the young girl who has lost so much. As a parent, my heart goes out to her. The adults are the problem here.

By the way, the reasons for the tests you mentioned are to protect your children...not to declare paternity. The diseases that the baby is tested for could be acquired in many ways aside from risky behaviors, or infidelity.

I agree that dad handled the situation with his daughter poorly. I just hope that this show will open some eyes in the judicial arena. People like Gloria Allred are a prime example of why we have needed changes in the law a long time ago. I too enjoy watching the show with my wife on a regular base without commenting but today's show hit a personal nerve with me. I have been on both sides. I just recently found out that I'm the father of a now 10 year old son. There is a lot of emotions involved with 10 years of not knowing and then now you have to do the right thing for the child regardless of the choice the mother made when she decided that someone else should father your child instead of you. Now she feels a morale sense of responsibility to our son to know who his real father is. I also had been lied to about a being the father of another child when the mother knew that she had been with someone else and when she tried to collect child support I asked for DNA test to be done and found out that the baby wasn't mine. The key in both situations were the women abused there power for selfish gain. I agree they should make the women who do this financially responsible. Hope to see changes in the near future .