# Concern about a friend's kid **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 6, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concern-about-a-friends-kid/363293 "2006-07-06T00:54:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concern-about-a-friends-kid/363293/21 "2006-07-08T07:32:03Z")
To Diogenes: The account is authentic. I used fake names, since I have already suffered, in a sense, from mentioning someone’s real name in a public forum–though not on the Internet. Once burned twice shy. Writers such as H. Allen Smith and Melvin Belli have used changed names; and I consider it proper, especially since I have some respect for confidence entrusted to me by Bill and Maureen. I have no intention of giving Bill adivce on how to bring up his kid. I have not walked a mile in Bill’s (or Artie’s) moccasins, nor do I have kids myself. Granted Maureen did give me a second-hand account about the “shrine”; I told my Mom and she consideres it disturbing. (And so far as I know only the cat has seen the swastika.) My account of Adelaide on the SDMB consists of two threads, neither of which I know how to create a link for. One has to do with Adelaide making threats over the phone to her mother; the other told about how I used the word “ditzy” on the message board at [www.classmates.com](http://www.classmates.com) and got smacked in the face by a backlash of political correctness. Adelaide has three kids, as I mentioned. The eldest is about 30 now; he is succeeding, with a good-paying job, a wife, and two kids; he lives near Phoenix. The second kid, daughter Natalie, has really sticky fingers and is not above stealing from her grandmother; as for Bert, the youngest, I have urged Maureen again and again to consult an attorney and have a custody hearing. I trust you can conclude from the above that I am justified in using fake names. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concern-about-a-friends-kid/363293.md?page=1)