ABSTRACT
Carol first came into the consulting room four months pregnant and uncertain of the paternity of her child. She wanted to know, ‘Why did I do this?’ At 32 she had been married for several years to a man who provided everything except passion, which she found while he was away on a series of business trips. Her other was embodied in a man who looked and sounded like her father, polished and gentlemanly. She said she instantly recognized him as one of her tribe. None of this was kept secret from her pragmatic husband and soon he came to play the waiting game on the child’s paternity.
