Don’t Let Your Mother Answer for You
She had, on paper, one of the more straightforward cases a family attorney will ever see: a father absent for seven years, no support paid, no contact attempted, a child who does not know his name.
She would have gotten essentially anything she asked for.
She could also, honestly, have simply said no — told me on that porch to go away, and never opened the door again, and no reasonable person would have said a word about it.
She did neither, and when I finally asked her why, about eight months later, she gave an answer that had nothing to do with me.
She said: “Because he asked about you.
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