What if Clark only learned he had a child because a Telepathic link developed?
I was just re-reading
Cause and Effect By ML Thompson.
Earlier I'd watched Star Trek Enterprise Season four episodes Demons and Terra Prime wherein T'Pol develops a telepathic link to her daughter
Elizabeth .
In
Nan Smith\'s Dagger series a telepathic contact between Kryptonian offspring is used.
So suppose Clark and Lois have a child. Any of a dozen ways to get rid of Clark after he and Lois have sex. Say the pheromone's effect on Lois lasts just a couple of hours longer or some such.
Clark leaves and it is only when the link occurs that he learns he has a child.
Or it is some woman in his past, say something like the set up for Stopquitdont's
Chip Off the Old Clark