a couple pretends to have a son

A story of two childless married couples who unexpectedly find themselves raising a son resulting from an illicit affair between their families.

A young couple pretends to have had a baby in order to get the girl's father's permission to get married.

To hide his escapades, a justice of the peace with a dissipated life pretends to have a son out of wedlock, but when the young man appears in his town he complicates things.

Mom and dad proudly exhibit a beautiful child which daddy persists in believing bears an uncanny resemblance to himself.

Two emotionally stunted brothers convince an elderly stranger to pose as their deceased father in order to keep living off his retirement income, only to find their stand-in patriarch's cultured and sensitive personality having an increasingly profound impact on them.

A man whose son was stolen at birth is convinced that he has found his long lost child.

A childless couple adopts a child, but the wife becomes convinced her husband sired the child with another woman. The son decides to seek out his birth mother to find out the truth.

A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.

A man decides to pose as his friend and claim to be the father of a child that isn't his.

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.