Posted on 12/19/2019 10:10:47 AM PST by steveben
Don’t give up hope! I know several kids who have wonderful step-dads, my grandkids, among them.
Don’t we get this story every year?
Well, I have similar suspicions. The printing is also very good for a 7 year old boy.
But I have known a few boys that at that age had very good English skills and had writing.
They are rare but not unheard of.
Then there is the fact that this organization has a financial interest in producing such a letter to Santa.
Yes. Some version of it.
I beg to differ. While some may think that, I take pride in having never treated my stepchildren ANY different than if they were my real children, with love and affection.
I have hope tempered with a healthy dose of realism.
Was your grandkids birth dad an abusive SOB?
It is the repeated hookup with abusive men syndrome that so many women have that I was pointing out.
Not all divorce stems from abusive men. Some men are just selfish twits others are philanderers. Some women are the same.
My point was not a slander against stepdads.
I am one myself. I have never been abusive to my wife or step children.
My point was that many women go from one abusive man to another.
It is a recognized psychological type.
If a woman has chosen an abusive mate once there is a high probability that she will chose another.
It is often said that the most dangerous place for any child is with mom’s boyfriend.
Last week my beautician was telling me about a little five-year-old girl who was suddenly removed from her home and living with a good Christian foster family for now. My beautician and hubby are helping. The girl is five, and her being raped multiple times by multiple family members might not be the worst thing that she suffered — mostly at the hands of her mother. (It’s so awful I don’t want to write/say it.) Some people are worse than pigs.
On Tuesday I dropped off a bag of things that might help make her Christmas a little better. Can’t help with the psychological or emotional things, though.
For all the above remarks, yes, the kids can be coached but no matter what, an innocent child is in the cross hairs. I’ll be Santa to a few hundred needy kids in San Bernardino this Saturday and I will hear some interesting requests. I always remind them that Jesus is the reason for the season and that God loves then. They all get candy and a nice present afterwards.
I have been responsible in my duties.
My latest acquisition is my first Mini 14! I loved it.
(As well as a Cricket for the kids.) They loved it.
Sadly however I lost these pieces and more in a capsize and total loss near the Mariana trench.
I am heartbroken but am glad my children survived.
We all need Virginia back in the RED.
No more boats or accidents!
Sickening
Totally heartbreaking.
My thanks for your kindness.
Nah, yours was just the first of equal cynics following you who by virtue of being members of this forum consider themselves "Compassionate", Conservative Christians...........
I'm going to add this thread to my list of why most self professed Christians on this site are nothing but hypocrites..........
What a heartbreaking story. I hope he’ll get a great stepdad in 2 years.
It beats prostitution.
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