Paternity in the good old days

[Wilson Gray]

"The only father" lacks the color of "the baby daddy."

-Wilson

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> In 1686, a Colony of Plymouth court charged a man "to be the only
> father of the said [bastard] child."  In another case, the mother
> claimed that a particular male was "the only father".
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> Joel
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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