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Just where did you get the idea that I haven't done research into just this area?

By your response to Pillars, and I quote, " Hmmmm... nope, I don't buy this at all. Give me one instance where a step-parent has been forced to pay for someone else's children.

If, during debate, you cannot respond to the other side, other than to say, "I just don't buy that." You will lose. Why don't you buy it? There are lots of people out there that can verify it for you. If you had researched it, you could have and, I assume, would have explained the reason why you "don't buy it." Without that information, a reasonable reader would assume you just find it hard to believe.

That may be, but I ain't gonna prove it to ya. It doesn't rise to that level of importance. I'm not gonna try to prove that men really did walk on the moon, or that there really was a Jewish holocaust. You gotta do the research and make up your own mind. I have personal experience with it, and that's all your gonna git here.

But thank you for your interest.

If, during debate, you cannot respond to the other side, other than to say, "I just don't buy that." You will lose.

Actually, I have won. Both you and Pillars made assertations that you have utterly failed to back up. I am waiting for some sort of citation, but at this point, I am not holding my breath. In the meantime, I find it unacceptable to simply take someone's word for it. I'm sorry if you find that inconvenient.

Why don't you buy it? There are lots of people out there that can verify it for you.

Actually, there are a lot of people out there who are more than willing to pass along word of mouth, FOAF stories that simply don't hold up to examination.

If you had researched it, you could have and, I assume, would have explained the reason why you "don't buy it."

Er... no. Once again, if you bring up an unsupported assertation, it is up to you to support it.

I have done quite a bit of research on this topic and while I have found too many unsubstantiated WOM and FOAF stories such as yours to count, I have never, ever found an actual documented instance of an ex-step-parent being forced to pay child support for a child with whom s/he had only a temporary relationship by marriage, interrupted by divorce. Does the possibility exist that someone, somewhere has been on the losing end of just this sort of court decision? Certainly. But with every one of these claims that melt under examination, the likelihood declines.

Without that information, a reasonable reader would assume you just find it hard to believe.

I do, in fact, find it hard to believe. Next to impossible, in fact. That may be, but I ain't gonna prove it to ya. It doesn't rise to that level of importance.

And that, I also find hard to believe. If this issue simply isn't important enough for you to bother trying to support your point, why expend the time and energy in multiple posts proclaiming how unimportant it is? I would think that if this situation were as common as you claim, you could have easily provided a citation in the time you've spent asserting that you will not provide a citation. The fact that you have not is telling.

I'm not gonna try to prove that men really did walk on the moon, or that there really was a Jewish holocaust.

No one has asked you to do anything of the sort. Simply put, all I am asking you to do is behave with honor and support your assertation, or drop it, as Pillar has apparently done.

I have personal experience with it, and that's all your gonna git here.

Actually, you don't even have that. Your friend is the one who allegedly friend has the personal experience.

But thank you for your interest.

Not at all. It is I who must thank you. Have a good day!