# Poll: Is Justin Bieber a Baby Daddy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889 "2011-11-04T19:40:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/41 "2011-11-05T16:45:22Z")
Answer: Answer: No. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/42 "2011-11-05T18:16:47Z")
If it’s true (and I seriously doubt it) I’ll console Selena. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/43 "2011-11-05T18:37:21Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > If it’s true (and I seriously doubt it) I’ll console Selena. 😃 Damn you for beating my to that joke! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/44 "2011-11-05T19:04:48Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > I don’t think it’s a money grab, and I don’t think it’s true. I think she’s a nut with a Bieber obsession, and has either convinced herself he _is_ the father, or sees this as an opportunity to meet him. I assumed money grab but this actually seems quite plausible. The Bieber obsession is awfully intense and widespread and now that I think about it it’s almost inevitable some woman will be nutty enough to claim her baby is Bieber’s. A Selena Gomez joke has already been thrown out, but it’s interesting to note this woman has made her accusation just after Bieber’s relationship to Gomez hit the news pretty hard. Crazy people will make up pregnancy/paternity stories to keep hold of the man they love… ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/45 "2011-11-05T19:22:08Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > Yes. She claims to have “credible evidence” which she’s keeping quiet about until it’s in court. (December 15 - mark your calendars! :D) What’s stupid about this, is that the only “credible evidence” she would need is the child itself. Either he DNA matches or it doesn’t, there’s really no more to it than that. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/46 "2011-11-05T20:23:05Z")
Bieber isn’t doing himself any favors by dragging this out. This is such a simple accusation to shoot down. Offer the dna and ask for the paternity test. If the woman is lying she’ll make up an excuse not to take it. If the test is positive then of course Bieber must pay child support. Make a baby in thirty seconds then support it for 18 years. That’s how it works for Justin. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/47 "2011-11-05T21:25:06Z")
[TMZ](http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/04/justin-bieber-baby-accuser-mariah-yeater-boyfriend/#.TrWl87Lf8rt) has a story that the accuser has a history of violence against her ex-boyfriend and originally accused him (the ex-boyfriend) of fathering her child. (yea, it’s TMZ, but they’ve had some scoops in the past). I vote “no,” and “nut job.” ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/48 "2011-11-05T21:54:17Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I know almost nothing about Justin Bieber, but this seems the most likely explanation to me. In addition to attracting over-enthusiastic fans, celebrities sometimes become the focus of people with serious mental health problems like paranoid schizophrenia. The most well-known may be David Letterman’s stalker [Margaret Mary Ray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mary_Ray), who sometimes claimed that she was Letterman’s wife and that her son was his child. In the world of music, I know Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam had a mentally ill stalker who repeatedly broke into his house, crashed her car into his security gate, and also claimed he was the father of her child. So this whole “celebrity fathered my child” thing seems to be a relatively common delusion. Not to hijack, but my votes for ‘best known psycho celebrity stalkers’ goes to Mark Chapman and John Hinckley, Jr. Edit: I see that’s been discussed. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/49 "2011-11-05T21:57:16Z")
He can afford it. If he takes care of his money he can have a quite a bit of fun in his youth and be able to deal with the consequences no problem. After all, why else do young men want to be rich entertainers? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/50 "2011-11-06T01:19:57Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > As far as mentally ill people fixated on celebrities then yes, but I was thinking more specifically of people who have a delusional belief that they’ve been romantically/sexually involved with a celebrity. Mark David Chapman did not, to my knowledge, have those kinds of feelings for John Lennon. > > John Hinckley, Jr. may be the most famous case of a psycho romantically/sexually obsessed with a celebrity, but he didn’t believe he and Jody Foster had ever been involved. His attempt to assassinate Regan was meant to get Foster’s attention, and came after Hinckley had repeatedly tried and failed through more conventional methods. Agreed. Margaret Ray is the first person who pops into my mind when the term “crazy stalker” comes up. Sad story. I knew she committed suicide, but that’s the first time I’ve heard HOW she did it. Gruesome. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/51 "2011-11-06T02:49:30Z")
They may settle and sweep the whole thing under the rug. So, we’ll never know - is how I voted. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889/52 "2011-11-06T04:13:35Z")
You’ll never convince me that he wasn’t ten years old when he participated in that _We Are the World_ remake last year, so it’s got to be “no.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-justin-bieber-a-baby-daddy/601889.md?page=2)