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Subject, I am emotionally drained. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a 42-year-old single mother of a son that is 20 years old my son's girlfriend

just had a baby that is fair-skinned and they both are chocolate the girl is 21 and a dancer at a bar

across town she says she's not a stripper but that's all she says my son is afraid to ask the girl for a paternity test,

so I did. When my son went to visit the baby, she jumped on him and then called me and said,

if I keep putting my son up to this foolishness, I would be next. I called her mother,

who happens to go to church with me, and I told her that her daughter is disrespectful.

She was not happy about the phone call and asked if we could talk in person, so I invited her

over. She pulled up and ran up to my door and yelled for me to come outside. She jumped on me

when I got in the front yard. I'm not a fighter, so we rolled around in the yard while I kept begging her to stop pulling my hair.

My neighbor broke us up and I ran inside.

I called my son and he called his girlfriend on a three-way and she said that I deserved to be beat up.

I reported the incident to the police and they wouldn't come out to do a report

because it was between my son and his girlfriend. I just don't want my son to be caught up

with a baby that isn't his. I told my son that we'll just get the baby one day and do a

paternity test ourselves. Now it's like my son is turning against me and telling me to stay out of his business.

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