Reply #74: how does the woman no for certain the child is not biologically her husband's? [View All]

[TorchTheWitch]

You're assuming for some reason that the married couple are not having any sex with each other around the time she would have conceived the child, and in such a case, the husband would know already that the child was not his biologically, so there's no deception there.

In most every case, the woman doesn't have any idea who is the father of the child because at the time of conception she was having sex with her husband and at least one other man. The only lying going on would be in not informing her husband of the POSSIBILITY of the child not being biologicallly his.

I don't understand how you believe that women mysteriously just KNOW who is biologically the father of their child when at the time of conception she was having sex with her husband and at least one other man. Unless there is something striking and obvious about the baby's appearance, she isn't going to know who biologically fathered the child, and if there IS something striking and obvious about the baby's appearance, her husband is certainly going to know it as well as her. There simply isn't any way for a woman to know for certain whether or not her husband is the father, so there is no deliberate deception that the child is not his... only that there may be a POSSIBILITY that the child is not his. I would imagine that most women delude themselves into believing the child is biologically their husband's in order to avoid having to tell him she had cheated on him and risk the marriage falling apart and facing raising the child alone especially when there is the possibility that the child IS biologically her husband's.