Couple Broke Up 1 Week Before Prom (Full Episode) | Paternity Court

What you're not going to do is stand in this

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room and potentially have two children at 18 years old. Well, maybe if... No, no, no! No no. No, no, perhaps if it were required... MS. HOUSTON: Mmm-hmm. ...to get a job... MS. HOUSTON: Mmm-hmm. ...he would have one. Maybe if someone taught him... Education is more important. ...that when you, no, no, no, honey. You can get your education and work. I have been working since I was 13 years old. (APPLAUSE) Wait. No no no no. EM. HOUSTON: Yes, you can. Now we're going to go to school on both levels because I'll let you talk.

Well. It is important for him to receive education from him. EM. HOUSTON: Right. But if he wants to continually sleep with unprotected women and have children in the world, he has to have a job. EM. HOUSTON: Oh, I... Wait! I started working when I was 13 and have been working ever since! How old is that baby, Mrs. Hasty? Six

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s. So how do you take care of the baby? Job. (AUDIENCE MURMURING) Uh-huh. How come you think you can't have a job? Uh, I didn't say I couldn't have a job. Why don't you have one? I don't know.

Are you applying? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. (SNIFFS) And I'll show you in just a second. Children need guidance. Sometimes they need tough love. Sometimes they need to be told what is acceptable and what is not. Sometimes they need expectations to be here, not beyond. Let them reach for the stars. Good? EM. HOUSTON: Right. When I corrected it... Mmm-hmm. ...the next time he answered me he did it correctly because I corrected him. (APPLAUSE) The point is... He, it's possible that he has a job right now. EM. HOUSTON: Right. And it should be. We are starting a bad pattern that we are going to break today. (AUDIENCE MURMURING) I'm ready for the results. (APPLAUSE) HOUSTON: Me too.

These results were prepared by DNA Diagnostics and read as follows. In the case of Jones v. Houston, when it comes to 6-month-old Sinclair Lyric, this

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has determined that Mr. Houston... You... ...are the father. (APPLAUSE) JONES: Boom! Yes. JUDGE LAKE: Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Jones, don't act stupid. Don't play dumb here. Oh. Oh. No! Do not do it. I know you feel somewhat vindicated. I realized that, but this is not the time to act because it is not a joke. You are 20 years old, Mr. Houston is 18 years old. You are 18 years old, you have a 6-month-old baby and a 6-

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-old baby, and you don't have a job.

We must change this. Your child, what is your baby, Mrs. Hasty, a boy or a girl? A woman. So, they are brother and sister. They deserve the opportunity to meet each other, to be able to play together, I saw that look. That's his sister. JONES: Okay. And he deserves the chance to meet his sister. He does. So don't give that look when I talk. Ms. Jones, you submitted receipts totaling $2,819 for expenses raising baby Lyric. Mr. Houston, you have accepted that you have not paid anything up to this point because it has been determined that you are his biological father.

He owes Ms. Jones $1,409.50, which is half that amount. Sentence for the plaintiff. The session is over.