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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Miss Texas 1967" data-source="post: 272090" data-attributes="member: 36">I think he believed it would happen at first, then he likely attributed their lack of success to their lack of interaction, and then wouldn't hear of anything to make it happen beyond that. I also believe that just as Jock wanted an heir, JR wanted Ewing Oil, which he basically had at the start of the show without an heir of his own. He was the president and until Pam pushed Bobby into moving back into the office and off the road JR expected that Ewing Oil was always to be his. John Ross Ewing III could always be put off to another day, especially since Sue Ellen was 8 years younger than him.I don't think he ever considered adoption nor seriously trying to make it happen because he just wasn't overly interested in having kids and the pressure had long waned. Until John Ross arrived his experience was likely with Lucy as an infant who he probably didn't have much to do with and before that Gary and Bobby who he'd never been that fond of as a kid himself. Sue Ellen wanting a baby was something he wouldn't have said no to but wasn't trying too hard himself to make happen.</blockquote>