Topic : 12/25 Parent Trap

There are no winners here, but the mother. She seemed to be gloating that she pulled one over her ex husband.

The father was wrong on how he handled it, I agree. He was just in shock, and did the first thing that came to his mind out of anger. That doesn't give him the right do do what he did, but give the guy some understanding.

The daughter is in shock and numbed as now she has been abandoned. Mark my word, that when Selena gets older, she is going to look at her mother and have no respect, as she will face the reality that both her father and herself are the true victims with her mother's cruel game.

The mother is the winner here. She saw her meal ticket, and is going to continue to use it. She seemed to be gloating from her chair, over the fact that her ex husband is stuck with his child support.

I think that there should be consequences for falsifying documents and paternity. She knew who she went to bed with, and I think she knew when she was pregnant who the real father was. She is just protecting herself, in hopes that some naive people will believe her.

I believe that the courts should look at the reality that the birth mother had deceived the father for paternity. She will need to repay the father for the child support she had forced onto him, and allow the visits with the father if both father and daughter agrees. The way it is now, the mother is in a win win situation, and no penalty for her actions.

Ms. Allred is so concerned over the lack of child support from the real fathers, and the mother and child being forced on welfare, well, maybe she should apply more time and effort on fixing the laws on the dead beat parent.

I see that some parents, who pay little or no child support, yet will make sure they get their visitation, or create mayhem in the custodial parents life for revenge. Yet if the custodial parent, doesn't provide for the needs for the child who lives with them could face legal or CPS charges. I think that if a non custodial parent does not meet the obligation of making their child support (those who are in great arrears) should be placed with charges of child abandonment, and could face the possibility of losing parental rights to that child.

I was so angry that Dr. Phil let Gloria plow over Enrique and Carnell.  And then promote her book that approves this type of behaivor!!!!!  C'mon Dr. Phil  you lost me on this one!!!!!

I am a woman and but I have to defend that father in some areas.  First, I will say that the only blame I would place on him is how he chose to tell the child.  After all, she is a child, but I can understand that he allowed the bitterness toward his ex to get the better of him and consequently, he never thought about the child's feelings and the devastation it would have on her.

The ex wife was very deceitful.  She would never expect her husband to say, "I'm happy we are pregnant, but by the way is it mine"?  I believe that because the child has a bond with this man as her father, he should still be allowed to have that relationship if and when the child feels comfortable, but he should not be bound by any law to continue paying when DNA proved that this was not his child, he was deceived and he did not formally agree to being the child's father even he found out that she was not his.  The woman should be made to reimburse him every penny for her deception.  It's no better than someone cheating another person out of their property.  If the father knew this child was not his and still agreed to participate in this child's life as if she was his own, then he is totally obligated to continue with child support etc. 

Gloria Allred is just like a BULL DOG.  She should shut up.  She wants to blame this man, what about the biological father.  No one though about the emotional stress it might have had on this man when he found out that this child he believed was his turned out to be someone else's, and that his wife  was cheating on him.  That's why he made such a irrational decision to tell the child.  That's the only thing I disagree with him in his behavior.  Why isn't the biological father contacted to take financial responsibility for his daughter, or maybe the woman is not certain who the daddy really is?  Suppose later there is a rear condition and the biological father is the only person who could help?

It's women like those why descent women like me are not able to find great men.