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*shrug* I just don't understand how securing child support for his daughter can be seen as selfish, no matter how he words it. "I" is the most used word in the english language - it's use means practically nothing. The way I read that, "he" needed to secure the fact his daughter would receive child support for her child. Why did "he" need this? Because he's her father and "he" sees it as a duty of his to do what's best for his daughter. Let's not get into semantics here.
Not to mention that highthief is right - a blind man could have seen this would have an adverse effect on the father-daughter relationship. Clearly, this effect is upsetting to him, so if it were purely him being selfish I think it's pretty clear that he would not have gone through with this, doing so much damage to a relationship he clearly cares about. To draw a (bad) comparison, a person doesn't murder someone they LOVE for selfish reasons, they murder someone they DON'T love (or fell out of love with). Point is, if he cares about her - and it's obvious he does - he has no "selfish" reason to basically destroy his relationship with her.
I'm STILL trying to figure out where some people think she was supposed to get money to raise her child as well as herself after she turns 18 and while she's not receiving child support from the father.
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