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One night in Stockholm: who’s the daddy?

Miscellaneous, Society: December 1st, 2006 by PR

We’ve just had our attention drawn to an extraordinary thread on the popular discussion forum at Familjeliv. The site is focused on family matters, as the name suggests, but one of the longest discussions (with 473 answers) reveals another side to Stockholm’s nightlife.

A young woman by the name of ‘Minsonochjag‘ (My son and me) is appealing to the Familjeliv readers for help in finding a young man, M, who she met at Café Opera, a Stockholm club back in October 2003. What M doesn’t know is that he’s the father of her son.

“The doorman let in two guys just before us; let’s call them A and M. By coincidence we were invited to join a group celebrating as one of them had just come home from the US. I was pleased to see that M was one of them. We were introduced and everything went very quickly.”

Indeed it did. A month after that fateful night ’Minsonochjag’ discovered she was pregnant. (And she knows it wasn’t J, who came along two weeks later, since she had a test ruling him out.) Understandably, she wants the father to know about his son but so far hasn’t had any luck tracking him down.

“…I’m not hunting for M for my sake. I just want to introduce my son to his father and M to his child, of whom he has no idea… This is about a little 2 year old guy who is wondering who is father is.”

So far so heart-rending. There’s a lot of scepticism in the ensuing discussion but whether it’s true or not (and good luck to ‘Minsonochjag’ if it is), how unusual is it? After all, Stockholm’s nightlife is hardly a haven of chastity.