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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happened to my Mom's friend. She wasn't too close to her but was good friends with her friends.

This woman, her husband and teenaged daughter moved somewhere in SE Asia, maybe Thailand. After a few years, they move back to DC and they've 'adopted' a baby. Everyone thought it was weird to suddenly adopt when you have a teenager. The rumor mill was it was the daughter's baby (she would have been 12-13 when the baby was born).

But as it turns out, it was the DH's with his Thai mistress. The DW adopted it and raised it as her own. Last I heard she and DH were still together. [/quote]

This is my post. I was not expecting this to blow up the way it did :-)

So to answer some of your questions:

My Mom and her friends did speculate about the motives of the OW. "Rich" American = paycheck. But this was all gossip talk. So no one really knows if she got pregnant on purpose for the child support or if it was by accident.

I don't think the teen DS knew about the Dad's affair or that this was her half siblings. At least not at the time. I think what way got me (I was a few years older than her, but still a teen and could relate) was all the swirling gossip that it really was her baby. And this was a time when that could affect a woman 's reputation. (Ugh I hate that I even typed that). I felt so bad for her that people were talking behind her back like that.

As for the DW, I got the feeling that she was strong armed into taking in this child. She herself is from a foreign country (not Thailand), English is her second language and she was in her 40's. She had never worked in America and had little to no job prospects. DH wanted to keep the baby and so that is what she did. That being said, I think she treated the child well.

I do not know how the OW felt about giving up her child. [/quote]

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