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I dated a girl in the nineties that worked at a maternity ward in a very popular hospital. She said that just comparing blood types five to ten percent of the babies did not belong to the mother’s couple. And of course doctors and nurses never said a word.

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My highschool used to do blood typing as a science experiment in bio. Part of the homework was to find out what blood type your parents were. One girl went home (before I was there, the teacher shared the story during the genetics unit), asked her parents their blood types, and "Dad, that's not possible. You can't be that blood type."

One lawsuit from mom later, and the school doesn't do that lab any more.

"Los cornudos" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckold

English is a very conciseness language too! ;-)

You mean they mixed up the babies and gave them to the wrong parents?

It’s almost impossible to mix up babies in a maternity ward nowadays with all tracking stuff they have. No, I mean the mother cheating her couple.

Your use of the word "couple" is confusing to people who speak English as a second language.

It's confusing for me and i speak English as first language.

English is my second language and I did not want to sound rude. I meant 'the guy that is supposed to be the biological father and he is not but he doesn't know'. In Spanish, we have a very rude word for these men: 'Los cornudos'. I love the conciseness in languages but I don't like to sound rude in HN. Sorry! ;-)

"partner" would be the right word for where you have used "couple" here.

Yes, you are right. Thank you!

Just for some balance, let me say that, as a native speaker, I got the point, even though the usage is not quite conventional. Logronoide, if I could write a second language as well as you write English, I would be very pleased with myself.

Another reason to not want kids.

Or rather another reason to marry a woman of strong character.

Kids have nothing to do with the honesty of your partner.

I'm pretty sure qubex means he does not want to raise someone else's kid, let alone his own.

Pretty much, or rather: I’d rather not be invested in the future beyond my death. My partner and I have sometimes discussed adoption (despite being able to conceive) and maybe we’ll go that route if and when stuff settles down enough for uncertainty to reach manageable levels.

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