[Avodah] A question of Yichus

[harchinam]

>
> This is distinct from other
>> cases where the father had already raised the child for several years and
>> made a connection (like an adoptive father would), when the truth came to
>> light.
>>
>
> Why is this distinction significant?  He could do the same at any time
> that he discovered how he'd been deceived.


This distinction is significant because once a man has raised a child for a
number of years the child and he are bonded and the father presumably loves
the child and so just dumping the child and disappearing from his/her life
is not so simple. The child is dependent on the person who they have known
as their father both physically and emotionally. As RSB says above, it is
comparable to the situation with an adoptive father, who also has no
biological ties to the child but loves them anyway.

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