A man who had an affair with a woman only 10 years older than his daughter, and wants his daughter to accept the child he is having with the woman, has received backlash on Reddit.
In a post shared under the username u/birdie_72 on Reddit's Am I The A**hole (AITA) subforum, the man's 16-year-old daughter said she found out about her 42-year-old dad's affair about a year ago.
The user in the latest Reddit post said: "I have seen him about five times since this all happened a year ago. I act pleasant when I see them, but things are awkward and my dad and I's relationship is clearly strained."
In a July 2017 article for the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), Nicholas H. Wolfinger, a professor of family and consumer studies and an adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Utah, said that "since 2000, older Americans are cheating more, while younger Americans are cheating less," based on the previous 30 years of the General Social Survey (GSS).
According to the survey, three out of every four adults in the U.S. were reported to believe that "extramarital sex is always wrong," while less than three percent were reported to think "extramarital sex isn't wrong at all," Wolfinger said.
The number of Americans who report having sex outside marriage remained "relatively steady" at around 16 percent, while older Americans only became more sexually active outside marriage in recent years.
"Collectively, we still disapprove of sex outside of wedlock, but we disapprove less strongly than we used to" and "this shift has been greatest for older Americans—people in their sixties, seventies, and eighties," the 2017 IFS article said.
Meanwhile, the poster's dad's girlfriend is pregnant and he "kept pushing" his daughter to attend the gender reveal party, "saying how the baby will be my little sibling."
The daughter told him: "It would have been one thing for him to get a divorce from mom but you didn't have the guts for that so instead you have an affair. So no, I'm not going to accept your little affair baby as a sibling."
The dad allegedly called his daughter an "immature brat" before telling her mom she needs to "grow up and accept" his girlfriend and that the baby "is going to be part of my family," according to the post.
The user said: "I know the baby has nothing to do with this but it is hard to accept and think about having a little half sibling."
Several Redditors came to the defense of the original poster, condemning the father for wanting to "have his cake and eat it too."
In a comment that received 15,100 upvotes at the time of writing, CompleteInsect8373 said the original poster was "Nta [not the a**hole]," adding that her father "played stupid games and this is his prize for his stupidity."
In a comment that got 5,100 upvotes, VerendusAudeo said: "NTA, OP [original poster]. This child will be born shortly before you'll legally be an adult. You're not going to have any relationship with your father's new family that you don't choose. And it sounds like you have no interest in having them in your lives. That's perfectly fine."
In a comment that got 5,000 upvotes, user stinstin555 also said: "In life we have free will. We are allowed to make choices...be careful how you make that bed, because you are the one that is going to have to lay in it...his consequences are that he now has to live with your decision not to be in affair babies life."
User vibehacks said: "NTA your dad wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants a happy life free from repercussions for his actions. It was his choice to hurt your family, and it is your choice how to respond to that," in a comment that got 479 upvotes.
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