Stranger "Popped Up Out of Nowhere" - Part 1 (Full Episode) | Paternity Court

the same city all the time. If they were, I didn't know. -All time. There's no reason you can't find us. -Without reason. - But how am I supposed to know this? If you weren't on our birth certificate, whatever... And we went to foster care. When you went to Child Services, to try to get us or whatever and you said you were our father, they could easily have given you a DNA test. It's not like they love us, not like they hoard us like children or whatever. Mrs. Waddell, I have to stop you there. Because I know you're speaking from a place of intense pain.

But this is a very important legal lesson, one that we often have to explain in this

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room. That when you're a man and you're not on a child's birth certificate, you have absolutely no legal rights. -But I couldn't just go and say-- -No. I wish it were that simple. I really do - - We were even on TV at one point. My twin brother and I were up for adoption, it was something called Wednesday's Child. I remember… And they featured it every week, and we were there several times, like… Boom, there you go, we're up for adoption, we're up for adoption, you could easily… Let me… Let me explain something to you.

I completely understand why you feel the way you do. -Yes. - But I completely understand, how could he... not have seen you on television. You don't know, I may have even worked during the time they aired that

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icular set and you just don't know, but what is so tragic and sad and I feel so much here. It was as if all of you were on parallel paths that would not intersect.