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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by thriftwy on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:14AM (#15660961)
It's not lie if everybody accepts and supports it, merely a convention.

There's father-by-birth, and then father-by-adoption, and then father-by-convention.

Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by tyingq on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:26AM (#15661296)
Sorry, but it's just terrible. The mother is paying $200/month for a service that could disappear at any moment.

The daughter thinks the rental is her real father. That's highly likely to unravel sometime in her life time. Certainly at his funeral...he is using a fake name and personna.

Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by hrktb on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:20AM (#15661786)
I think the fact that the daughter or her surrounding world has troubles rooted in the lack of father representation is the terrible part.

Not that someone has to be blamed, but it’s the shitty start of the story.

From there if the mother can fake it until her daughter is in a better situation, I think it’s positive.

Even if it doesn’t turn out that well, I am not sure it would much more devastating than having been bullied for all that time she was decieved, and it could a start for a discussion on how she deals with her father image.

Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by imustbeevil on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:02AM (#15661690)
> The mother is paying $200/month for a service that could disappear at any moment.

The real father actually did disappear, after a history of abuse.

Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by Eliezer on Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:08PM (#15664961)
Presumably if her mom is about to run out of money, she pays for a final session where the dad gets hit by a car and has a funeral, right?
Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by danudey on Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:26PM (#15665126)
If it costs $18,000 USD for a wedding, I wonder what it would cost for a funeral. Likely more than $200.
Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by kaeluka on Thursday November 09, 2017 @04:17AM (#15660981)
The daughter doesn't support it