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Now, today's first story comes from Mean Confusion, 515, who says,

My 42 male son, 20 male, wants me to adopt his baby, and is threatening to be a deadbeat if I don't.

I'm not sure where to start with this. My wife and I have five sons ranging from ages 24 to

10. We were very young when we had our oldest, yes. And we just recently found out my wife

is pregnant again. When we announced this, my second oldest son, 20 male, who lives independently but nearby, had an extremely angry reaction.

And when I spoke to him later, I found out he'd gotten a girl pregnant and wanted me and my wife to adopt the baby.

The baby's mother, his ex-girlfriend, is not on board with that idea and he had been

trying to persuade her.

That was nearly two weeks ago, and now I'm at a loss for how to deal with the situation.

I realize my son is scared of the situation he is in and wants help.

I've tried to reassure him that I'm with him and to the best of my ability

willing to help him with whatever he feels he can't handle. Money, babysitting, advice, anything.

I thought that once he realized it would be okay, he would step up and accept responsibility

to raise his own child. However, he is adamant that he doesn't want

anything to do with this baby and insist he will do nothing besides pay the bare minimum of child

support if we don't adopt it. Not even take an account the difficulty it would be for me and my

wife to have two babies in the household as well as our other children. I am uncomfortable

with the idea of

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