'"Who can blame Mark Webb for suing his ex-wife after discovering the daughter he’d raised had been fathered by his wife’s lover?
For years he’d loved his vivacious little blonde girl, bursting with pride at all her small achievements, only to find out when she was 17 that he’d been deceived in the cruellest way.
Who can blame him for launching this extraordinary ‘paternity fraud’ case in which he sought damages from his ex-wife and her lover?
Well, I’m sorry, but I do. He has displayed despicable selfishness towards a young woman who is the innocent victim in all this. Yes, you can understand his bitterness towards his ex-wife, but Elspeth did nothing except love him as her father.
Had he succeeded in his action, the court’s decision would have been a slap in the face to every loving step, adoptive and foster parent in the country, with its implication that you can’t love a child who is not biologically yours.
What kind of man is Mark Webb that he could raise a child as his own, love her as his own and then abandon her?
When he first found out, he promised Elspeth that nothing would change between them. But that wasn’t what happened."
He disowned me,’ Elspeth says now. ‘I was just 17. After he found out he wasn’t my father, he just cut me off. I was so close to him.’
The High Court was right to throw out this bewildering case.
Throughout Britain there are countless examples of fine men and women who love children who are not their own as though they were.
The pure and unconditional love of an adult for a child does not require a blood bond.
Yes, Elspeth is not the girl Mr Webb thought she was — but then because of his cruelty, he is certainly not the man she thought he was. And he is not fit to be called
her dad."'
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
'"Who can blame Mark Webb for suing his ex-wife after discovering the daughter he’d raised had been fathered by his wife’s lover?
For years he’d loved his vivacious little blonde girl, bursting with pride at all her small achievements, only to find out when she was 17 that he’d been deceived in the cruellest way.
Who can blame him for launching this extraordinary ‘paternity fraud’ case in which he sought damages from his ex-wife and her lover?
Well, I’m sorry, but I do. He has displayed despicable selfishness towards a young woman who is the innocent victim in all this. Yes, you can understand his bitterness towards his ex-wife, but Elspeth did nothing except love him as her father.
Had he succeeded in his action, the court’s decision would have been a slap in the face to every loving step, adoptive and foster parent in the country, with its implication that you can’t love a child who is not biologically yours.
What kind of man is Mark Webb that he could raise a child as his own, love her as his own and then abandon her?
When he first found out, he promised Elspeth that nothing would change between them. But that wasn’t what happened."
He disowned me,’ Elspeth says now. ‘I was just 17. After he found out he wasn’t my father, he just cut me off. I was so close to him.’
The High Court was right to throw out this bewildering case.
Throughout Britain there are countless examples of fine men and women who love children who are not their own as though they were.
The pure and unconditional love of an adult for a child does not require a blood bond.
Yes, Elspeth is not the girl Mr Webb thought she was — but then because of his cruelty, he is certainly not the man she thought he was. And he is not fit to be called
her dad."'
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"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."