It is very heartbreaking to see how some relationships begin beautifully and end sadly. At first, it feels like it is the best you can ever wish for and the most important thing that really matters.
To live with a woman for several years and raise family only to be told later that you do not belong in that family is one of the worst if not the worst thing to happen to a man.
For privacy protection purposes, all names in this article are not the actual names of the individuals involved.
After so many years of completing SHS, I met Isaac Oppong at the entrance of the 37 Military Hospital with his dad, Mr Adeti, once an energetic man, in a wheel chair. I quickly recognized him because he used to come to the school every weekend to check up on his son. Sadly, he couldn’t speak but only nodded to my greetings.
Noticing the sad look on my friend’s face, I asked him what was going on and he decided that we meet later and talk.
We met later and he told me his stepmother is the cause his father’s predicament.
Aparently, the dad and his mum never got married because the mum had him at a very young age but the family did not allow his mum and dad to married so they went their separate ways but the father always took cate of him.
Mr Johnson (actual name withheld) was a police officer and resigned few years back to run his own business.
He run the business with two sons from the current wife in Accra.
Everything was fine until things started going bad financially in the business which occasioned some quarrels in the home once in while.
Few weeks back, the couple argued again and in the heat of the argument, the wife angrily told the wife that the two sons are not his biological children.
Dumbstruck by the outburst, Mr Johnson collapsed and was successfully resuscitated at the hospital.
Unfortunately, he’s unable to move by himself at the movement and has resorted to the use of wheelchair until he’s hopefully back on his feet.
The family has asked him to do a DNA test in the two sons but that is yet to materialize.
For now, he wants to get better.
Should DNA be done at birth for Ghanaian families?
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