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>>"My parents divorced. No one is talking to my dad. We're not anywhere close to being healed yet and I don't know how long it will take to put the pieces back
by credo 12y ago
>>"My parents divorced. No one is talking to my dad. We're not anywhere close to being healed yet and I don't know how long it will take to put the pieces back together."
We don't know the circumstances under which the father and his then-girlfriend had given up their son for adoption. However, that seems to have happened decades ago.
I'm not sure why no one is now talking to the dad for something that happened decades ago.
- maxerickson 12y agoI don't think you are meant to. The author is trying to write about the unexpected consequences, not put the consequences on display. It seems fairly likely that the falling out in the family would not have happened without the information provided by the genetic testing (or a similar revelation).
- frandroid 12y agoBecause dad cheated on his wife. The girlfriend was a mistress. * Edit: Turns out I was wrong, as indicated below.
- zzleeper 12y agohttp://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/6107039/23andme-ancestry-dna-testing http://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/6107039/23andme-ancestry-dna-tes... " the child was not the result of adultery "
- smtddr 12y agoIt's really bad that vox didn't mention this info. Nearly everyone will assume this the result of a cheating husband.
- icebraining 12y agoSo what? Isn't that why (s)he's using a pseudonymous?
- psykovsky 12y agoYou mean nearly everyone didn't understand what they just read and the message flew right over their heads.
- anigbrowl 12y agoPerhaps he kept it as a secret all this time. Many people regard hiding such a fundamental piece of information for such a long time as a breach of trust. The interesting thing to me about the story is that a morally neutral technology can lead to bitter disagreements by unexpectedly presenting a moral dilemma.
- sliverstorm 12y agoMorally neutral technology does this all the time. Human social interactions are filled to the brim with lies of all kinds- falsehoods, fabrications, lies by omission, etc. Technology is gradually stripping them away.
- icebraining 12y agoAnd adding some others.
- jacquesm 12y agoThis is very nicely documented in an SF story about the ability to view the past Asimov?. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
- soperj 12y agoMy thoughts exactly. It's not like he's changed overnight because of this new information. He's the same person he always was.