It certainly is.

I understand your second point. I suppose I simply don’t understand the distinction you are making between consent and commitment. Perhaps this is a foreign language issue but I thought “consent” was a legal determination (I am thinking of sexual assault), and it could be withdrawn. As far as you having “explained…

This is what I thought. Another person keeps telling me that you can’t “withdraw consent” once you’ve “committed” but, to be honest, I don't understand him at all.

I think I have clarified any confusion that might have existed in my earlier comments and that you are arguing for the sake of it.

English isn’t my first language, it wasn’t my intention to make the distinction that I did. I meant to say that if it were merely a matter of the DNA then it would seem that he isn’t her child, but if she consented to the pregnancy and did not withdraw it until after the insemination had occurred already, as you have…

I stated above that I didn’t know when she withdrew consent. If you know it was after insemination then you have settled my question.

But isn’t this the issue? If it was prior to insemination that she changed her mind then it shouldn’t have have been done.

That's how I see it. But I don't know when she withdrew her consent.

What a mess!

Wikipedia states that she has no DNA link to the child. Is that correct? It isn't clear to me from this story.

I’m soon to visit Montreal and Los Angeles to visit friends and am very excited to go here! This will be my first trip to the US and I am nervous about speaking English, but the weather, oh my god, the weather. It looks like a fantasy.

I gained weight after I turned 12, it was just normal puberty and changes. My father said I looked like a potato. Typical French father, I think. He didn't mean it to hurt me. I cried about it.

It is terrible. I'm sorry for your loss.

You are kind. I'm in Paris and people are suffering so. Sometimes it is hard to be nice.

I’m not an expert on the filmgoing habits of Americans, that's the reason I asked a question. Sorry to have offended you.

Thanks for replying and not taking offense, none was meant. I'd forgotten about Brokeback Mountain. I think most Europeans know that younger Americans are not that way.

Excuse me? I’m European and know many Americans have a backward and repressive puritanical streak in them, so I asked a question regarding the likely success of a film that features a gay storyline. Am I mistaken? Do Americans often see films about gay lovers?

I was educated by Catholic schools in Luxembourg (all nuns) and they definitely had old-fashioned ideas about discipline, but I think the treatment we received was typical of many preparatory institutions. We weren't abused, but they were not kind.

Is this film expected to do well in America? I know that most people there have accepted gay marriage, but it is different to watch a same sex love story, in a way. I am curious.