Topic : 12/25 Parent Trap

When you love someone you invest love, time, and resources without any proof the relationship will continue or end - I believe the father in this program received joy and happiness from this child that was priceless - so for him to end the relationship was an error just like the mother's error in informing him the truth at the beginning of her birth, but I wonder if this birth did exist with the knowledge of the truth would the second daughter's birth occur- leaving this man without any children.  God has a plan to challenge everyone to be better human beings, so people lies and cheat but the death of this father and daughter relationship was not necessary or healthy for either party.  This man invested money, time, and love in a child of God - a smart, loving, and wonderful human being he helped to become and he should have embraced this challenge and enjoy the fruits of his labor with a healthy and stronger relationship, but now after all this time and pain, the daughter needs validation from all parties including new wife so she can gain the love and acceptance she has lost.

I can't believe that an educated attorney could sit up and justify what I saw on the show today. She looked like a fool! This has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with time.  If that man was not the father than HE has a choice to keep contact with the kid. Stop trying to dig in the mans pocket!  Women are not held responsible for what they do.

Once the seed is fertilized then the man has no say.  If it's a woman right to choose, then it's a womens responsibility!  The women have been getting it both ways. I paid child support for 14 years and my babies mother admited that she put me on because she could.  Not because I refused to be apart of her life, because she wanted to suffer.  I will tell you this, the child still suffers because of child support.  If the father can't live, and pay his bills?? Who do you think suffers? If he has to go and get another job, who has to suffer? The kids!!!!

Its easy to say "it aint about the money" when your getting it!  That lady should go to jail, and we need Child Support reform. The states are makin a ton of money off of fathers who owe back pay. None of that money is going to the child!        

We women always call men dogs when they cheat, what do you call this woman that cheated on her husband, got pregnant, had the baby and told her husband that it was his child. Come to find out after 10 years that it's not his child. What do you call this woman??? I would call her a no good dog. She brought this child into the world knowing it wasn't her husbands child. He finds out and now she laughs about it.  She should be ashamed of herself an is to blame for all the conflict that has become of her child and the x husband. She has not only hurt the child but also hurt this man for all these years by not telling him the truth. The x-husband has a right to tell the child the truth if the dishonest mother never told her. It's not his fault, he bonded with a child he thought was his, he took care of a child that was his and he loved this child as if she was his own. Now the child is mad with the non father because of the mother. It's your fault and if it should be fixed the mother should fix it . The mother should have to pay him back every penny back he gave. Go and find the dog you cheated with and get the money for her care from him. The x-father has a right to request a voluntary relationship with the child. Mother, think about what you do before you do it. Make sure you don't hurt another child or non father.

Fist of all I would like to say that my heart goes out to Selina. These lies that Maria has let go for the 10 years of this childs life are devastating. Not only to Enrique but to Selina as well. Enrigue should have been the bigger person and told this child in a different way that he was not her father, and not close the door on the relationship. However  Maria should have been woman enough to take the responsibility and tell her husband when she was pregnant that she had cheated allowing him an opportunity to find out then if he was the father. I believe that all this woman wants is money.  Maria telling Enrique that he is not the father, should go to the man she broke her vows with and tell him to cough up the monies for support, and also pay back Enrique for the years he paid. Maria is a example of the type of women whom go to these shows looking for sympathy. Then these women wonder why everyone calls them bad names. You all bring it o yourselves. Keep going and airing your dirty laundry to the world and you will get a bad reputation NOT sympathy. LADY I hate you and don't even know you, because of the lies and deception you have lead others to believe. You should be in jail for fraud and be made to pay it all back. I hope the Laws do change where a father can have the right to be tested whenever he feels the need, no matter if it is 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, or even 20 years later. It is HIS right.

You know I have three daughters in which I love very dearly and my ex-husband was not their father but because their natural father did not want anything to do with them and would not financially support them, my ex took the responsibility and stepped in as their Dad. To this day the man they think of as their DAD is still there for them, still supports them in everything they do. And yes even though they have grown into head strong women they still know they can turn to him for help, ANYTIME.

Enrique I do hope that you and Selina can put the differences behind you and continue with relationship. My prayers go with you and Good Luck.

As for that Lawyer Gloria Allred, Lady Go back to defending the stars, because as far as you defending regular people you SUCK. I would NEVER in a hundred million years support you and let you get a commission off a book you wrote and you really have no clue as to what you are talking about.

Todays show was absolutely devastating, that poor little girl going through a divorce is bad enough, but having to find out the way she did that her "father" was not her biologial dad after 10 years. We as a society seem to focus on the "money", the issue is the welfare of the child, and I mean the mental well being, why is it anytime a lawyer is involved its always about money? That because a lawyer like Gloria Allred is out for just that,money not the child's well being. just what is the max money can be made for herself, image and then the client. Gloria made it very apparent that she is not concerned about what is right or true, but how she can manipulate the law to her advantage, just look at the high profile cases she does, camera time and what the final $$$$ outcome.

  The truth is the father handled the situation with his DAUGHTER in the worst manner, he should never ve told her the way he did, but in the guidance of proffesional therapists and not have walked away over the mistake his ex-wife made. As a custodial father of my son's, I know what its like to handle the emotional pain of my son's over their mother's lack of emotional support. I have not receive financial support in almost 4 years, but going after her is not worth the pain my children would feel. As much as I want to, its nort worth it.

 The courts need to deal with the direct emotional affects a divorce will have on the children involved and not allow lawyers make it all about money.