Wednesday 12 December 2012

Paternal Discrepancy

A while ago I read the betrayal of a husband by his wife in that he never knew he was raising somebody elses son until he encountered an incident during his boys' baseball game. Just as his boy was about to bat, he stood up to cheer his boy on but suddenly there was someone else who stood up and the resemblence was almost unmistakeable and started shouting and cheering as well. What happened was he went home, didn't finish his sons game and started on a fact finding mission and booked for a paternity test to determine who the father really is. Results came out and all the worst fears was realised, he was not the father, confronted his wife who denied point blank but the test was there. The term used for this type of thing is "paternity discrepancy". Knowing the truth is the onus of the concerned father himself. How do you react when the truth is revealed? Is the human intellect capable of forgiving such betrayal? Well one things for sure, failure to find out the truth might mean your genes end with you, it doesn't make you wonder why our ancestors had many wives, it could have been the fact that spreading the net so to speak would bolster their chances of survival but some might disagree, hey, we are not all the same actually some battles are fought this way to breed the other side to extinction. We have come so far but looking at our history when the Radini Levuka, the Vunivalu of Bau Ratu Nailatikau's wife was impregnated by Niumataiwalu founder of the Vuanirewa clan one would think that the child would have been killed with his father but it wasn't the case, Ratu Nailatikau raised the child himself and later became Vunivalu himself. But then again the prupose of him raising the child and whether he had other wifes who bore him sons is yet to be known because only Ratu Banuve seems to be prominent in digital records.
Lets head back to the the topic and delve more on its inception how it is brought about, infidelity, promiscuity the casual, sex friends with benefits and many more feel free to drop some in. Okay but the thing is the search for the truth is always the painful part but for I wouldn't settle for nothing less, if my wife is involved in infidelity I wouldn't mind hearing the truth, it won't kill me life goes on although years of trust gone down the drain but its always better late then never. Rise again and move on. 

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