Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / July 2005

I have a question about a sticky situation that I would like some
outside input on. A couple of years ago, my sister married a man with
three children. The custody arrangement up until last week was every
other weekend. My brother-in-law has had basically no relationship

I am a new stepmother and get along great with my stepson, who is 5. The
problem is, no shocker here, his mother. This woman called me when 'R' and
I had been dating less than a month to ask if I would keep her son on his
weekends('R' works out of state for months at a time) She had ...