Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / January 2005

I need some advice. My stepdaughter is 5 (I have been her stepmom since she
was 8mths) and is giving me a run for my money. She will lie to her dad
about things like "I didnt feed her" or "I said no when she asked for a
drink" she also stood in the middle of the floor during our ...

Hi!,
I mostly lurk in here, so please excuse some of my ignorance with the following:
We are possibly looking at having shared care (ie a week at his Mum's house, a
week here) of my 10.5 year old stepson at the suggestion of his mother.  We

I am a man, age forty-five, who is on the brink of a most unexpected,
yet welcome journey.  Two years ago I divorced the woman who had been
my wife for almost ten years.  The details of the demise of my marriage
are not important to the telling of this story except to say that we

Hello..  long time no post...  things have been OK here...
Just a quick question since I find opposing views on the Internet..
Does my income count when it comes to the child support payments?  BM pays
DH Child Support since DH has custody. She also once said that she'd rather

Hey everybody,
I used to post here a couple of years ago, when I was a stepmother. Now I'm
not anymore ...
When I married my (now ex-)husband he came with a 10 yr old daughter. She

I don't think we need to go into the Great Debate again, I just need
to brag a little.  There's precious little merit-based scholarship
money available these days, but my darling daughter has just been
offered a 4-year, full-tuition scholarship to the University of

Hi!  I am hoping somebody can give me some sound advice or piece of wisdom.
My husband and I got married 6 months ago (my first, his second- he has 2
sons, aged 26 and 18).  His 18 year old lives with us. (works part time
seasonal) My 18 year old stepson is very quiet and ...

I know there are more serious things going on in the world; but I need a
kick in the head from you folks who know better.
We've given SD permission to visit DD (now 7-1/2 months) at her day care
tomorrow afternoon.  SD used to work there, so she'll also be visiting with

I bought three training-bras for SD today.
~~Geri~~
(Sanctimonious Cornhusker Bitch)

I'm Michael. Jess dragged me kicking and screaming here because I need some
advice.
I married my now ex-wife in March of 1995 and we seperated in March 2003.
The divorce was finalized August 2004. We have a seven year old boy.

There are a number of offensive forged posts this morning in this
newsgroup.  Please note that the followups are set to
news.admin.net-abuse.email.  These posts are simply an attempt to
disrupt the news.admin group; the poster hopes that you'll follow up

Naturellement, a 'mini-crisis' at home has prompted me to search
google for step-parent and/or step-father discussion boards, to see if
I am mad, or just in the presence of a typical teenage male.
Having read many of the posts here, it would appear that _both_