I agree. I knew about it for about five years myself. I would never have revealed it.
Children are so easy to love. All the kid needed was a friend. The father really blew it. It’s an opportunity to feel better about yourself, showing love to some other man’s kid. It’s not the kid’s fault.
As for adoptive parents, it’s amazing how fast they become fierce protectors of their adopted child.
My heart really goes out to some of the folks who serve in the Foster Parent program. They get attached. They see situations they can’t help. I’m sure it rips their guts out at times.
As is human nature, there are bad people in all walks of life, so I know there are horror stories too.
“It’s an opportunity to feel better about yourself, showing love to some other man’s kid. It’s not the kid’s fault.”
Exactly,and it usually turns out well.
A young woman I used to work with lost her father when she and her sister were three and four. The mother remarried about 5 years later,two more kids were born,and the second husband was a GREAT father to all of them.
The part that impressed me is the deceased husband’s parents were considered grandparents to all four kids: in other words these kids had three sets of grandparents that were included in all holidays,celebrations and their lives.
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