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I am a little suspicious of the so called wonderful 50's when everything seemed to be so pure and the world was full of poodle skirts and sock hops.
I know someone that comes from a family of 9 and I know for a fact that 8 of those 9 had children out of wedlock. Everybody is in a cover up to make themselvers look pure when it is quite obvious that that is not the case.
I have suspected that different fathers are involved but denial will surely go to the grave.
Do you not think that people should own up and tell the truth? I was once told by someone that back in the 30's and 40's when children were born at home, it was written in the bible and who would lie about something written in the bible. Well, I believe that plenty of people would.
Will people will go to their grave and not admit they may have lied about who the fathers of their children are?
I think that with DNA nowadays, a lot of this will be cleared up but that doesn't change the fact that there are people out there that truly want to know who their real dad's are and not who the mother married.
Do you agree or should we leave well enough alone? Do you believe that everybody has the right to the truth regarding natural paternity and not legal paternity?
I am a little suspicious of the so called wonderful 50's when everything seemed to be so pure and the world was full of poodle skirts and sock hops.
Don't feel bad - it's a proven fact that everyone is suspicious of everything that happened 60 years before they lived. The 50's were a time of horrible, horrible evil in the world...we opened the doors to alien invaders, began making chemicals out of other chemicals, discovered algebra - just a truly NASTY time!
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I know someone that comes from a family of 9 and I know for a fact that 8 of those 9 had children out of wedlock. Everybody is in a cover up to make themselvers look pure when it is quite obvious that that is not the case.
I've heard about this cover-up before - I think it's called the "Grassy Roll" theory.
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I have suspected that different fathers are involved but denial will surely go to the grave.
We could always get a court order and dig those suckers back up for DNA testing!
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Do you not think that people should own up and tell the truth?
Heck no! Do you KNOW what this world would be like is everyone did that?!? It would be the 50's all over again!
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I was once told by someone that back in the 30's and 40's when children were born at home, it was written in the bible and who would lie about something written in the bible. Well, I believe that plenty of people would.
So when kids were born in the 30's and 40's, their births were recorded in the Bible? No WONDER that thing is so long!
I agree that plenty of people would lie about something written in the Bible - as well as the ones that wrote it.
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Will people will go to their grave and not admit they may have lied about who the fathers of their children are?
So now the women are going to their graves, too? Seems like everyone is going to their graves! Must be remnants of that darned epidemic from the 50's...
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I think that with DNA nowadays, a lot of this will be cleared up but that doesn't change the fact that there are people out there that truly want to know who their real dad's are and not who the mother married.
Again, I agree. But now there's twice as much digging we have to do.
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Do you agree or should we leave well enough alone? Do you believe that everybody has the right to the truth regarding natural paternity and not legal paternity?
So basically you're wondering whether we should be exposed to a horrible lie or a wonderful truth? The funny thing with that is sometimes a horrible lie can itself become a wonderful truth and a wonderful truth a horrible lie.
If you hurt a loved one with the truth, does the truth serve them in any beneficial capacity? Some would say "at least they know the truth"...so what? It doesn't alter their reality, except to make it darker for the rest of their days.
Sometimes it's better to remain happily ignorant than sadly aware.
I know someone that comes from a family of 9 and I know for a fact that 8 of those 9 had children out of wedlock. Everybody is in a cover up to make themselvers look pure when it is quite obvious that that is not the case.
Having children out of wedlock simply means the parents weren't married when the kids were born. Some might argue that whether the kid was conceived out of wedlock is important ... okay, if they say so. Shotgun weddings weren't uncommon. I have a few in my family, or at least some 8-lb healthy babies who were born a couple months early. Nobody really ever gave that much of a damn, as long as the kid had a mom and a dad.
But you make it sound like these 8 women you know all had children by other men, suckered some guys to marry them, and kept it a secret. That's another thing entirely. Not really sure what you're arguing.
Why stop at the 50's--reel back the clock a couple thousands years to when the ultimate fairy tale was written in 66 separate chapters by several authors of questionable sanity. It was since that time that we have subjected ourselves to wars, witch huntings, beheadings, genocide, and living in fear of a mystical entity way up in the sky all in the name of the Bible. Here we are in the 21st century and still no better off. The 50's were no better or worse than any other decade before or after.
Some people may benefit from the truth, particularly someone with a family history of certain illnesses. Aside from that, there's really no need to insist that someone know all the messy details about what went down at their moment of conception. I know there's plenty of skeletons in my family history, I don't think my life would be any better or worse today for knowing all the details. If you're going to live in the past, you'll never embrace the present or look forward to the future.
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I am a little suspicious of the so called wonderful 50's when everything seemed to be so pure and the world was full of poodle skirts and sock hops.
I know someone that comes from a family of 9 and I know for a fact that 8 of those 9 had children out of wedlock. Everybody is in a cover up to make themselvers look pure when it is quite obvious that that is not the case.
I have suspected that different fathers are involved but denial will surely go to the grave.
Do you not think that people should own up and tell the truth? I was once told by someone that back in the 30's and 40's when children were born at home, it was written in the bible and who would lie about something written in the bible. Well, I believe that plenty of people would.
Will people will go to their grave and not admit they may have lied about who the fathers of their children are?
I think that with DNA nowadays, a lot of this will be cleared up but that doesn't change the fact that there are people out there that truly want to know who their real dad's are and not who the mother married.
Do you agree or should we leave well enough alone? Do you believe that everybody has the right to the truth regarding natural paternity and not legal paternity?
Why? To give someone a good topic of discussion? I don't see where it matters unless it's for the sake of a close gravely ill relative who needs the information for medical reasons.
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Ranks in the top 10 as silliest post of the year.
