All families are complicated, and it’s all but inevitable that if you get married to someone you have to accept you are only going to be adding to your own complications. However, it’s also true that there is a fine line between supporting your partner through their issues with relatives and being made to take …
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‘They STOLE her baby’: Parents Trick Their 16-Year-Old Into Signing Her Baby’s Adoption Papers, Then After 24 Years of No Contact They Try to Reconcile, Daughter Flat-Out Refuses
Plenty of things are a challenge when you’re a teenager. You in the thick of discovering your personality, your style, your ideologies, and the things you like to do, the last thing any teenager needs is an over-complication clogging up the formation of their cerebral cortex–which is why it’s so gnarly if you get pregnant …
Seguir leyendo ‘They STOLE her baby’: Parents Trick Their 16-Year-Old Into Signing Her Baby’s Adoption Papers, Then After 24 Years of No Contact They Try to Reconcile, Daughter Flat-Out Refuses
Family kicks out 18-years-old foster kid, claiming ‘fostering is a business’ and that they can’t afford to support him anymore: ‘They told me it’s not personal’
Some parents are born to become foster parents to kids in need of a home. They know exactly how to ensure the foster kid feels comfortable and at home, they know how to get them to open up, and how to welcome them with open arms. It is an honest gift, and those parents truly …
Seguir leyendo Family kicks out 18-years-old foster kid, claiming ‘fostering is a business’ and that they can’t afford to support him anymore: ‘They told me it’s not personal’
Man pressures his husband’s 16-year-old son to let him adopt him, dismisses his non-biological father who passed before he was born: ‘He always brought up that it was a miracle he’s even on [the] birth certificate’
Just because a parent passes away before their baby is born doesn’t make them any less of a parent. That even applies when the late parent isn’t biologically related to the child. This story follows the son of a gay couple who never got to know his «daddy,» as he calls him. While his living …
Seguir leyendo Man pressures his husband’s 16-year-old son to let him adopt him, dismisses his non-biological father who passed before he was born: ‘He always brought up that it was a miracle he’s even on [the] birth certificate’
‘Neither of us wants you’: Adopted 15-year-old kid confronts divorcing parents after they admit neither of them wants to take custody of him
We can all wholeheartedly understand that getting a divorce is a difficult experience. No one wishes for themselves that their loving relationship would fall apart until the only choice is to completely break apart from each other, especially not when there are kids in the picture. But that is no excuse to drop your marital …
Seguir leyendo ‘Neither of us wants you’: Adopted 15-year-old kid confronts divorcing parents after they admit neither of them wants to take custody of him
‘Our bio dad wants to walk you down the aisle’: Adoptee pressures sister to invite their birth parents to her wedding despite her wanting nothing to do with them
In families, as in all relationships, it’s important to be able to take no for an answer. It doesn’t matter how many times I ask my sister to go to Six Flags with me: if she says no, we’re not going! Obviously, it takes two to tango, but it takes one to listen and learn …
Seguir leyendo ‘Our bio dad wants to walk you down the aisle’: Adoptee pressures sister to invite their birth parents to her wedding despite her wanting nothing to do with them
‘You’re abandoning your family’: Hospital Worker Refuses to Help Sister with Kids after Being Told She Was Wasting Money by Putting Foster Daughter in Private School
Nobody can quite push your buttons like your siblings (or parents, for that matter). They know you for too long, and they understand on a very deep level what will annoy you, and what won’t matter to you at all. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. One kindhearted hospital worker shared that she …
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Aunt who regrets putting up her baby for adoption 38 years ago pressures adopted niece to search for her birth parents, won’t take no for an answer: ‘Finding my birth parents won’t make her son search for her’
Every adoptee has a different story. Some of them really resent the fact that they were raised apart from their birth parents, and others are perfectly happy and content with being adopted and wouldn’t want it any other way. That is a two-way street because in order for a child to be adopted, their birth …
Seguir leyendo Aunt who regrets putting up her baby for adoption 38 years ago pressures adopted niece to search for her birth parents, won’t take no for an answer: ‘Finding my birth parents won’t make her son search for her’
‘They asked me how I could be happy being adopted when I had real siblings?’: Adoptee meets biological siblings, gets criticized for not regretting being adopted
Every adoptee has a different experience. It’s easy to think of adoption as a universal good because it gives children consistent and healthy homes, but that’s not always the case. Adoption can be an exploitative industry. Mothers can be coerced into giving up their children against their will. Not all adoptive homes are safe, nurturing …
Seguir leyendo ‘They asked me how I could be happy being adopted when I had real siblings?’: Adoptee meets biological siblings, gets criticized for not regretting being adopted
Woman Reunites With Long Lost Brother, Immediately Demands He Lend Her Money and Include Her in Family Gatherings
Families are not always easy to manage. That being said, no matter what your family do or say, you should always be their strongest ally. However, what would you do if a woman showed up out of the blue and introduced herself as your sister? The account that follows is the story of a perplexed …
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