...the husband to the list too. A dozen donuts says she probably tried to pass the kid off as his or that she blackmailed him (threatened divorce and taking HIS children away) if he didn't accept the kid.
Another dozen donuts says that the reason why the father wasn't in the child's life for the first 2 1/2 years was because it took him that long to get through the court system to get access to his child.
