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How do you think House would do as a dad? Cuddy needs a donor. Would you want him as a dad?

Basically the whole scene between Cuddy and House in "Who's Your Daddy" is one of my all time fave scenes. The one where she says thank you to him in his office, and he asks if she came all teh way up there to say thanks, and she replies no. And then leaves.

He nods at her at one point, clearly waiting for her to ask something, which she doesn't. And I have a feeling, that if she had asked him to be a donor, he'd have said yes. Otherwise, I can't see why he tried to open the conversation.

But - then comes the question, would he want to be just a donor, or would he also be a parent. Would he be involved. There are many aspects of this, and I think that he would be at least curious towards the whole process, and knowing he and Cuddy are friends, I can't see how he would not help out. And he's not a cold and unfeeling person, so I can't see how he would not get attatched. And so on and so on..

Because what I can't see happening is this - ten years from now, their kid, and look, there's Lisa, the kid's mother, and look there's the guy who donated sperm but wouldn't want to be a father. I'm all for honesty towards adoptions, single parents, and I understand people breaking up, but usually there's then a distance between the parent that raises you and the "weekend" and "holiday" parent (as it were with my parents). But actually having your dad around, knowing he didn't care about you, is just too hard a truth. And I can't in my mind imagine that House would want that for a kid either.

So basically I could see him doing it, I could even see him sleep with Cuddy (several times, you know, getting pregnant takes more than one try).. and what an image - but how they'd go about it all afterwards, I have no clue.

As for him being a dad, I'm sure he'd be as good a father as any other random guy out there who are a parent. There's no such thing as a perfect recipe for being a parent, and I'm sure House has good qualities as well as bad qualities, just like the rest of all parents do. It's more a question of would he be interested in being a parent, and this I don't really know...

Vamp, I agree with just about everything (and nice to know I'm not the only one who can ramble, except the "random guy out there" part. Nothing random about House. He'd either be great or he'd suck. He's got that lack of compassion thing, or inability to show it, versus his passion for life, or saving and protecting it. It would probably make for a complex father/son or daughter dynamic.

All good points. I was amazed at how well he interacted with the kid in "Lines in the Sand," yet in the end he could only look at him with that expression of perplexed appreciation. Only House can do that! My dad was a bit like that. You could tell he cared by what he did, rather than what he said.

On another note, has there ever been a plot development or dialogue to indicate that House has never had a child? Now THAT would be a plot development! Maybe a paternity battle, though that would be a bit clichéd.

Here is what I think cuddy has her kid it`s a girl she takes a paternity test and finds out that house is the father and hides it from him

Just finished watching "Sports Medicine" on USA Network (my closest thing to Tivo), and it has a couple of references to House and new life. When Cameron questions House about someone having an abortion to save another person's life, he says, and I paraphrase, "I've thought about that a lot." He goes on to speculate about whether the person being saved has 50 years of life or six months. There was a lot of controlled emotion from House. There were a couple of other exchanges (wish I could Tivo my short term memory), but I think House holds great respect for children. And at the end, at the monster truck show, Cameron asks him if he's ever been married. He said something I couldn't quite make out. It was "I've only got one," or "I'll only have one," or something like that. I couldn't make it out. Does anyone know the exact line he said (Vamp?) ? It could be a telling reference to House's history.

Dear Vampire dawn - do you really want to see house and cuddy in bed together having sex. I certainly don't but if its what you would like then????? Personally - although I love house - I'm going to be howled down by droves of protesting people for my next statement - If and When the series comes to an end I would like to see house die tragically and not leave any loose ends. Dare I turn on my computer after that last statement. Probably not

i always got the feeling that house prefered kids cause 'patients always lie' but kids lie less then adults. and when chase starts working in with the babies he says that its cause hes sick of all the lies (i think, i havnt watched it in a while)

found it, season 2 chapter 5. i missed that one!

dear vampiredawn, Well I couldn`t finish what I was going to say my sister got on and almost 3 hours later she got off I found out the only reason she got off was because the computer quit working. So here is what I was going to say before I was interupted......House notes that Cuddy is hiding somthing from him so he snoops through her office and finds the results to the test. She appears at the door with her daughter in her arms and has a flashback to when she drugged him. He was so mad that he didn`t she her daughter in her arms and pushes her. She thought he was trying to kill her baby girl and makes foreman go after him. He corners house on the roof and pushes him. House almost falls but got his balance back. Foreman just leaves house on the roof. House tells Cuddy that he was sorry and asked her why she didn`t tell him and she said that she was worried about what he was going to say or do. She asked him why he tried to kill her little girl Sarah. He tells her that he didn`t see Sarah in her arms.

Sounds pretty dramatic.. Hey, I think you should go write that fanfic!

I think Cuddy will almost certinly get pregnant but she isn't going to have a baby. That would make her too happy.