What would you do?
Poll - Total Votes: 17
I would tell him the boy is not his grandson.
I would keep my mouth shut. Let everyone be happy.
You can only vote on one answer.
My wife and I watched a movie last night from the mid 1950's. You have to remember that back then being a unwed mother was seriously frowned upon and made you a social outcast. Okay, so here is what happened. This girl was a unwed mother. She went to Mexico to have the baby. Her friend had just gotten married to a rich man. She decided to give the baby to her friend to raise. The rich guys father didn't approve of the marriage and cut his son off. Shortly afterwards the new husband dies in a car crash. Five years go by. All of a sudden the rich father gets an anonymous phone call saying he has a grandson and his daughter in-law is a unfit mother. He has a private detective check into it and is told yes she does have a child, but he appears to be well taken care of. A month later he gets an anonymous letter saying he has a grandson and his daughter in-law is a unfit mother. The rich father in law is really mourning the death of his son and starts having talks with his daughter in-law. She let's him see the boy. Then the father in-law asks for custody of the boy. The daughter in-law is getting by, but that's all. He tells her he can give the boy everything. About this time the boys real mother shows back up and is murdered. The murdered woman's roommate is charged with the crime because they had a fight the day before the murder. Her lawyer eventually finds out the truth. That the murdered woman is really the boys mother. So now the boys real mother is dead. No one has a clue who the real father is. The rich father in law offers her $100,000 for custody of the boy. In today's money that would be millions of dollars. She accepts and signs over custody. The lawyer confronts the woman and about killing the real mother. She flees with the police on her tail and gets in a terrible car accident and is rushed to the hospital. The doctor, the lawyer, his assistant and the police are all in her room. The doctor tells her she is dying and asks if she has any last words. She admits to killing the woman, but doesn't tell the real reason. She opens her mouth to say the woman was the boys real mother and shuts up. In a last thought she saves the boy and secures his future. The lawyer and his assistant goes to see the rich father in law to tell him about his daughter in-law dying. They see the boy and how well he is being taken care of and how the rich father in law is showering him with love and attention. The assistant asks the lawyer if he is going to tell the rich father in law the boy is not his grandson. The lawyer says no.
What would you do? Would you tell the father in law the boy wasn't his grandson which would send him to an orphanage or would you let the grandfather keep believing the boy was his grandson and give him a wonderful loving home?
What would you do? Would you tell the father in law the boy wasn't his grandson which would send him to an orphanage or would you let the grandfather keep believing the boy was his grandson and give him a wonderful loving home?
