Stepchildren still are family, even after divorce
Filed under: Dealing with ex wives, Divorce, Searches, Stepchildren
Q: I’ve been dating a man for a little over a month.
His second marriage was the result of his getting the girl he was seeing pregnant. It lasted five very turbulent years. Their child is now 6 — and she also has three older children by another man.
My problem is that my boyfriend remains in contact with his three ex-stepchildren. In his words, “I divorced their mother, not them” and expects me to accept that those children are still his children for the rest of our lives.
His reasoning is that they’re his son’s siblings and they will always be a part of his life, as will his son’s mother. Is it fair to ask me to accept three former stepchildren? They really never were a family.
Read the answer…Home & Garden | Stepchildren still are family, even after divorce | Seattle Times Newspaper
Should a stepmother be called Mum.
Filed under: In the news, Stepchildren, Stepfamily, StepfamilyProblems, Stepmothers
* Argument over stepmum’s title goes to court
* Couple split when baby is four months old
* Mother argues dad “attempting to replace her”
AN Adelaide mother went to court to prevent her daughter from referring to her ex-husband’s new wife as “Mum” or “Mummy” or “my other Mummy”.
‘The woman, who cannot be named, argued that her ex-husband was deliberately undermining her role as their child’s mother, by encouraging his new wife to answer to the terms “Mum” and “Mummy” and “Mummy-D” (D being the first letter of the stepmother’s first name.)
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