Thread: Why Advise someone to LIE about the Child's Father? - Yahoo! Answers

A couple of questions ago there was a very long answer advising and instructing on how to Lie and avoid a father's right to his own child Is this really the kind of world we're living in? What about the child's right to know the truth of his/her parentage? Not to mention the fact that this is the exact situation where adoptive parents find themselves at the receiving end of a contested adoption - the father finds out...

its horrifying, and i certainly dont advocate it at all. My cousin was convinced by her adoptive mom to lie to her daughters father. two years later, when she came clean and admited the baby was his. Now they are in court poor kid..

Erm, weren't there a whole bunch of answers to this question already? Why are they not here anymore? And lying is absolutely wrong. That information belongs to the adoptee, as far as I'm concerned. To lie about it is to deny them their own story.

When I put my daughter up for an adoption I had a lawyer and we publised it in a paper(one we knew was in the area but he would not see) but he was legally advised as to we we not sure where he was living at the time.