AITA for not having good answers for my newly discovered adult kids?
In the quiet shadows of a past he thought he knew, a man’s world shattered with the revelation that he had fathered two children in his teenage years.
Unaware and unprepared, he grappled with the weight of an unknown legacy—two lives he had never met, born from fleeting encounters and silence that spanned decades.
As his newfound children emerged from years of searching and uncertainty, they confronted him with a storm of emotions and unanswered questions.
The fragile threads of trust strained under the burden of disbelief, leaving a father and his offspring to navigate the painful journey of connection, truth, and the hope for reconciliation.
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The original poster is facing intense anger and disbelief from his newly discovered adult children, who demand explanations and reparations for a lifetime of absence he claims was due to complete ignorance.
The central conflict lies in the children's inability to reconcile his factual lack of knowledge with their emotional need for him to have known or done more.
Given the OP's verifiable lack of prior knowledge, is it fair for the adult children to hold him responsible for not having saved money or actively searched for them, or is their demand for answers and accountability reasonable despite the circumstances of his ignorance?
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