Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / May 2005

Hi all.  I am hoping for any advice I can get.  It's been hard to find
something useful for my situation online.
I am just got married (on Friday!) to a wonderful woman with a nearly 3
year old daughter.  They are Russian speaking Latvians.  I am from the

Can anyone offer any advice on what to tell a 12 year old regarding child
support?  An order was recently established for my child's birth mother to
pay child support.  During a visit, she told him she had it set up so can
give him money every month, but it will come to us.  He ...

Wow, is my SS pissed at us.  We went to see Star Wars (DH & I, I mean)
before we would commit to him whether he could see it or not.  Which is SOP
for us, right?  We decide no (he's 9; I could go into why, but I don't want
to ruin anyone who hasn't seen it.  Basically we think ...

I am in a relationship witha man who 17yrs older then me and he has 3grown
children 18 22 27 they act like they hate me and they havent even got to
know me I just found out yesterday they already chased away my boyfriends
other girlfriends what to do I love my boyfriend very much my ...

I been with my hubby almost 5 years now.
about a year an a half ago 1 of his twin daughters came to live with us...
now since they lived in Toronto(we live a 1000 miles from  the middle of no where)
my hubby only got to see his daughters once every couple years during they summer.. ...

As a brief summary, I got married to a father of 3 (now boy-13, girl-11,
boy-10), almost 5 years ago. For 3 years the kids lived with us until we
wanted to move 2000 miles away when the Mom chose to keep the kids with her.
We flew the kids to us for the summer, who needless to ...

I've been reading responses/comments from this group for some time now and
believe that there are some very insightfull, intellegent members here.  All
comments read seem helpful and sometimes you just need another's point of
view.  Any comments or advice will be welcomed.

They want to raise kids to SACRIFICE them to their unholy gods at the
16th birthday OR do butcher and to eat them when the kids are 18 !
Yes, that's true !

Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers and Stepmothers.
Any advice to what to send a mother who all year long brainwashes her kids'
head against stepmom and on mother's day shows her kids she's sending the
stepmom flowers?

I found this group in a moment of despair and just needing somewhere to
sound off! Two years ago my partner and his two daughters (now age 12 +8)
moved in with me and my two daughters (now age 14 + 10).
I really dont have any reason to complain...both sets of 'other' parents are