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CharmYou Posted 13 years ago
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What does "You name it" mean? Name what?

What does "You name it" mean? Name what?

Here is the context: My dad's first wife, "Peggy," got pregnant while he was overseas in World War II. When he came home, he divorced her and tried without success to get custody of their two kids. Peggy went on to have three more kids out of wedlock with three different men. She had sex in front of the kids, misspent their child support money -- you name it.

(By the way, does the phrase "tried without success" mean tried to get custody but failed to get it? I don't understand why the dad wanted to get the custody of two kids whose father is not him. If I were him, I wouldn't want the custody and would even not willing to see the shameful kids. What a culture shock!)
  

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CharmYou (By the way, does the phrase "tried without success" mean tried to get custody but failed to get it? Yes. CharmYou What does "You name it" mean?

— AlpheccaStars

  • CharmYou (By the way, does the phrase "tried without success" mean tried to get custody but failed to get it?
  • Yes.
  • CharmYou What does "You name it" mean?
  • Name what?
  • From the examples given, you can imagine what else she did.
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CharmYou(By the way, does the phrase "tried without success" mean tried to get custody but failed to get it?
Yes.
CharmYouWhat does "You name it" mean? Name what?
From the examples given, you can imagine what else she did. Whatever you say (name), it is probably true.
CharmYouWhen he came home, he div
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CharmYoushameful kids
No. They are not shameful. The mother is.
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Thanks a lot for your answer Emotion: smile
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CharmYouI don't understand why the dad wanted to get the custody of two kids whose father is not him.
You are misunderstanding. He wanted custody of his own two kids, not custody of all five! Read the passage again.
CharmYouyou name it
~ anything you can think of that you might like to add (that is appropriat
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CharmYouWhen he came home, he divorced her and tried without success to get custody of their two kids. Peggy went on to have three more kids out of wedlock with three different men.
He tried to get custody of their two kids, meaning the two kids he had with her before she had the others. He was not trying to get custody of the other three kids h
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KJinCali79He tried to get custody of their two kids, meaning the two kids he had with her before she had the others.
The two kids' father is not him, she got pregnant when he's overseas which means she had affairs.
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CharmYou The two kids' father is not him. She got pregnant when he was overseas, which means she had affairs.
Unless you know that from other parts of the story, you are the only person who thinks this is true based on this short passage..

We all understand that he had children with her before he went overseas, and she then had ch
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AlpheccaStarsMost of the time, the mother will get custody. It is only in rare cases that a judge will award custody to the father.
Fortunately, this is not true any longer. The preference is for joint custody unless one parent is clearly unfit/a danger to the children. In the years after WWII, however, what you write was certainly the case.
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CharmYouThe two kids' father is not him, she got pregnant when he's overseas which means she had affairs.
What don't you understand about this? You don't get a count of five kids in total?

When he came home, he ... tried ... to get custody of their two kids.
Peggy went on to have three more kids ... with three
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BarbaraPAThe preference is for joint custody unless one parent is clearly unfit/a danger to the children.
Right. I know a guy who got custody because his ex-wife was a nut case — used to get drunk and dance on the dinner table — during dinner! The kids were traumatized and told the judge they'd run away from home rather than end up with her!

CJ
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