dont know your whole story so i can't help as much as i would like to, but if your ex is anything like mine then i understand the hesitation. the past 8 months he has been so unstable, trying to run between me and his ex and has no idea what role he wants to permanently play with our daughter that is being born soon. for the most part though, it's all negativity and he has said several times he isn't ready to be a father and could never bare the shame of telling his family about her. so if down the road he would want to be in her life i would seriously question letting him in her life so easily. i don't believe this crap about children need to know their fathers. if their fathers are drug addicts or perverts or pathalogical liars they don't need to know them, that will only screw them up. and over my dead body is fob going to let my daughter down.