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April 14, 2009

Parents & Steps – the More, the Merrier!

Ty

Recently, I have heard talk about whether or not stepmothers (or stepparents in general) have the right to, or are able to, love their stepchild.  I think that a stepparent has every right to love a stepchild, and they ought to, or why else would they be involved in a relationship in the first place with the kid’s parent?  Also, why would it matter how much they loved the child? For example, if the stepparent said “I love them like one of my own”, why is that bad?  The more love, care, and attention a kid gets the better! I think that the parents that are complaining about stepparent’s love for kids are just jealous.  The more love, the merrier.

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One Response to “Parents & Steps – the More, the Merrier!”

  1. Sweetie Berry Says:
    May 1st, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Amen and Amen. As a mom and stepmom, I know that fear can play a part in letting someone else influence who your child is and becomes, however, safety issues excepted, after seven years of raising children with other women in their life (as ex was dating) children are not harmed by other people plugging into their lives in healthy and appropriate ways. I reared two children in my home full time who were not my birth children, but children I married…and I do love them, and I do choose to keep them in my heart and think of them as very much a part of my heart and life. Their mother and I choose to openly share the journey, at times the journey was very painful for her, the courts did not allow her to rear her own birth children, but there were reasons she chose that allowed that. I am not here to judge her, nor point a finger, I am simply the woman who in reality had custody of her children, and in the same situation, I would want my birth children to be loved as her own….Life doesn’t always have to be about drama…healing happens when we accept people for who they are, not what we would wish them to BE