# I'm your husband, who's your daddy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221 "2012-09-19T23:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/1 "2012-09-19T23:32:41Z")
Well, in this case it’s the same guy. Woman’s husband, & daddy all in one. Saves on the cost of holiday presents. 😃 Note that she discovered this. All those married years she didn’t know that they were related. [http://www.ohio.com/news/dyer/bob-dyer-one-twisted-family-tree-woman-finds-out-late-husband-was-also-her-father-1.332813](http://www.ohio.com/news/dyer/bob-dyer-one-twisted-family-tree-woman-finds-out-late-husband-was-also-her-father-1.332813) > [@](#): > > The next time you think you’re having a bad day, image how Valerie Spruill felt when she discovered that her husband and her father are the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/2 "2012-09-20T03:49:51Z")
Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS at the OP’s request. - Gukumatz, IMHO Moderator ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/3 "2012-09-20T04:55:37Z")
Also, about that woman you killed in a random brawl a few years back… ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/4 "2012-09-20T07:56:10Z")
This kind of case seems like a really good argument for not getting romantically involved with someone if there’s enough of an age difference that one partner could plausibly have offspring the other’s age, especially if the younger partner was an adoptee or did not know the parent of the gender in question. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/5 "2012-09-20T11:53:22Z")
Is it just me, or is that a really badly written article? I found it hard to figure out what actually happened, the way it jumped about all over the timeline. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/6 "2012-09-20T13:30:00Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > This kind of case seems like a really good argument for not getting romantically involved with someone if there’s enough of an age difference that one partner could plausibly have offspring the other’s age, especially if the younger partner was an adoptee or did not know the parent of the gender in question. Really? I mean, this is bad and all, but you think we should not sleep with older men because they might turn out to be our fathers? Wow. Of all the things to worry about! (And yes, I am teasing you.) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/7 "2012-09-20T13:31:16Z")
Or you shouldn’t sleep with _anyone_ before DNA testing to make sure they’re not your half-sibling, just in case Daddy was playing away from home 😛 (ditto) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/8 "2012-09-20T13:44:11Z")
Must have been an Electrafying discovery. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/9 "2012-09-20T13:59:01Z")
I put the blame squarely on the husband/father - as he would be fully aware that there was this chance. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/10 "2012-09-20T14:02:42Z")
You know in Bollywood movies when parent and child is separated when the child is very very young - it’s appalling how often the parent recognizes their child, fully grown, 25 or 30 years later. SOMETIMES JUST FROM THE VOICE! I’m not sure what my point is. Maybe: If this had been a Bollywood movie, they’d have known! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/11 "2012-09-20T14:08:48Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I’m not sure what my point is. Maybe: If this had been a Bollywood movie, they’d have known! From what I could tell from that article, half of Akron knew and didn’t say a thing! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/12 "2012-09-20T15:27:47Z")
So she found out from her uncle? I guess that’s better than hearing it from your brother-in-law. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/13 "2012-09-20T15:57:13Z")
> [@simster](#): > > I put the blame squarely on the husband/father - as he would be fully aware that there was this chance. What about the uncle? Or, jeez, gramma, grampa, or the half of Akron that knew. I’m sort of appalled that apparently there were dozens of people aware of this, yet no one bothered to mention it to her, you know, _before_ she married him. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/14 "2012-09-20T16:06:57Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > What about the uncle? Or, jeez, gramma, grampa, or the half of Akron that knew. > > I’m sort of appalled that apparently there were dozens of people aware of this, yet no one bothered to mention it to her, you know, _before_ she married him. of all the people directly responsible that should have known better - the FATHER has the most culpability - the others are complicate in not bringing the information out , but ultimately the decision was his. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/15 "2012-09-20T16:11:27Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > From what I could tell from that article, half of Akron knew and didn’t say a thing! :eek: Where were they at the wedding when the preacher asked “If anyone here knows any reason why these two should not be joined…”?? Then again, from the ages of the parties involved, this marriage took place when such things were not spoken of in polite company, so there ya go. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/16 "2012-09-20T19:26:59Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > So she found out from her uncle? I guess that’s better than hearing it from your brother-in-law. I’m deeply ashamed of how long I had to think about this before I understood it. > [@Nobody](#): > > Forget it, Jake - it’s Akron. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/17 "2012-09-20T19:41:19Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Is it just me, or is that a really badly written article? I found it hard to figure out what actually happened, the way it jumped about all over the timeline. Me too. How did she end up marring her father? I kind of gave up trying to make sense of the article. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/18 "2012-09-20T19:50:33Z")
“She fights the natural inclination to hate him, because people who hate don’t get into heaven, she says. And if you don’t make it into heaven when the time comes, she notes, you can’t hit the rewind button and try again.” ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/19 "2012-09-20T19:54:02Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > From what I could tell from that article, half of Akron knew and didn’t say a thing! :eek: Honest, I didn’t know! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/20 "2012-09-20T20:22:27Z")
Now I want to tear out my eyes with my mother’s broach. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221.md?page=2)