# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/21 "2012-09-20T20:25:28Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > 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) 😉 Just marry someone who couldn’t conceiveably be your half sibling. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/22 "2012-09-20T20:29:52Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Is it just me, or is that a really badly written article? Forget it Jake, it’s the Akron Beacon Journal Online. ---
**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, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/23 "2012-09-20T20:32:46Z")
I’m not getting the Chinatown references. Which is weird, because in a little over an hour I’ll be in Chinatown. ---
**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, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/24 "2012-09-20T20:43:15Z")
“He’s my father!” _slap_ “He’s my husband!” _slap_ Etc. _slap_ Regards, Shodan _slap_ ---
**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, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/25 "2012-09-20T20:46:13Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Now I want to tear out my eyes with my mother’s broach. I always wondered, why the eyes, anyhoo? I mean, they weren’t exactly the offending member. :eek: ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/26 "2012-09-20T21:22:00Z")
I think it is based on the myth of [Oedipu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus)s. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/27 "2012-09-20T21:49:20Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I think it is based on the myth of [Oedipu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus)s. > > Regards, > Shodan I always found it funny Freud and other seized on the incest part of the myth, the more compelling part to me is the self consistent timeline thing which has inspired further myths in the bible like Herod and Jesus and Moses all the way to books and film. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/28 "2012-09-20T22:16:19Z")
in a way this isn’t surprising. [The Westermarck effect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect) only seems to protects us from being attracted to our relatives if we spend time around the relative when one party is under the age of 6 years. If her dad wasn’t around when she was a child, it would make sense that the normal protections against incest wouldn’t be operating when they finally did meet. It seems very bizarre that other family members apparently knew something about it and never told her though. However, it sounds like her bio family is very dysfunctional. Poor lady. I’m glad that she is trying to make the best of life in spite of apparently having a crummy family. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/29 "2012-09-20T23:28:22Z")
I’m confused. She thought her grandad was her Dad till she was nine. Her bio-mother was someone known as a “family friend.” So the mother wasn’t the daughter of the grandad. So how was he her Grandad? Was he the father of her father, and didn’t mention it when they got married? ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/30 "2012-09-21T01:26:12Z")
I understood it to mean that she was raised by her grandfather, who told her (or let her assume) that he was her father. I also understood it to mean that her grandfather didn’t want her to know that her mother (his daughter) was a prostitute, hence the lie that she was a friend of the family. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221/31 "2012-09-21T03:47:58Z")
> [@simster](#): > > 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. Of course, but given he was clearly a douchebag who wasn’t going to voluntarily not-date his daughter, why on earth did no one else step up to the plate? If you see someone get punched, do you just stand there and watch or do you do something about it? There were several levels of fail, here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-your-husband-whos-your-daddy/635221.md?page=1)