To: Xenalyte
I know one person that changed her name to her step-father's in highschool. It just about tore her biological father apart, it also alienated her from that entire side of the family for years.
70 posted on
06/26/2003 9:25:48 AM PDT by
Dead Dog
(There are no minority rights in a democracy. 51% get's 49%'s stuff.)
To: Dead Dog; Bacon Man
I know one person that changed her name to her step-father's in highschool. It just about tore her biological father apart, it also alienated her from that entire side of the family for years.
That definitely wasn't an issue for me; my father has a sparse family, most of whom I never even met until his mother's funeral, and he's not the type to care enough about his children's lives to worry about whose name we take.
That's why I refer to him as my father, but to my stepfather as my Dad. My stepfather is one helluva guy. We're good buddies now, not just dad and wicked eldest daughter.
Bacon can back me up on this; he's known Xena's Dad for almost as long as he's known me, and he can attest to his stand-up-guyness.
72 posted on
06/26/2003 9:28:21 AM PDT by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: Dead Dog
I know one person that changed her name to her step-father's in highschool. It just about tore her biological father apart, it also alienated her from that entire side of the family for years. Well, maybe if the biodad had made more of an effort to be part of his child's life, she wouldn't have felt the need to change her name.
78 posted on
06/26/2003 9:36:58 AM PDT by
Tamar1973
("He who is compassionate to the cruel, ends up being cruel to the compassionate." Chazal/Jewish sage)
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