Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Trouble?

I had a call this morning from my mother who wanted to know how she could get a copy of a program from SBS. She was trying to track down a copy of "Insight". She had heard about it from her brother who had heard about it from his son. It had apparently featured Mum's ex-brother-in-law and she was keen to track down a copy so they could know if he was truly contesting the paternity of all five of his and Sylvia's children. This would seem strange except that two of their five children were not Ian's - as he found out when he and Sylvia divorced a few years ago.
The "Insight" program was on paternity and DNA and it featured Ian and Vicky, one of his not biological daughters. (Is there a proper term for this relationship?) I'm not sure how long the transcript will remain on the site but it discussed Vicky's dismay at finding out that Ian was not her father, especially when he had worked so hard to care for and keep the family together. She did not tell him when she first found out, rather keeping it a secret between she and her mother.
Ian is apparently seeking compensation from the biological father given that all the children were disadvantaged because he didn't contribute to his children's rearing from the start.
The thought that Ian might require paternity tests on the three oldest children was something that, in my mother's words "would blow the family apart". However, that appears to have just been a mis-report on the program. The question is whether the rumours that that is what Ian said will outweigh what he actually said.

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