Responsibilities of children

Case 668

2023-02-14T21:03:26-07:00

I received a friend request on Facebook from my father, whom I have not heard from for the past thirty years. When I was seven, he abandoned us for another woman and the family that he made with her. I overheard him asking my mother to tell us that he was dead and that we [...]

Case 6682023-02-14T21:03:26-07:00

Case 337

2024-03-17T22:30:47-07:00

I am a sixteen-year-old girl, and for as long as I can remember, my family has had a lot of problems because of my father.... He was unfaithful to my mother..., he insults me using very foul language, and he is very selfish. My mother takes care of all of us. She basically is both [...]

Case 3372024-03-17T22:30:47-07:00

Case 620

2023-02-14T21:49:10-07:00

After finding out that my mom had hidden from me that the man who raised me was not my biological father, my parents forbade me from looking for him. I feel that I need to know him, for I have never felt that I had a father. My sister doesn’t love me because I have [...]

Case 6202023-02-14T21:49:10-07:00

Case 313

2024-03-17T22:25:13-07:00

I am twenty-four years old, and this year I met my father for the first time. He abandoned my mother and me by moving to another country before I was even born. I can’t deny that I grew up with resentment toward him, but I had forgiven him.  When I met him, I hugged him [...]

Case 3132024-03-17T22:25:13-07:00

Case 291

2024-03-17T22:35:35-07:00

I am a thirty-two-year-old woman. Ever since I was a child, I have hated the man who says he is my father. I don’t know him and I’ve never seen him. From what my mother told me, he didn’t want me to be born. He asked her to have an abortion because he didn’t intend [...]

Case 2912024-03-17T22:35:35-07:00

Case 274

2024-03-17T22:48:03-07:00

My mom has been a widow for the past twenty-five years. She has three daughters, including me. I helped her economically even before she was widowed, although I can no longer work because of a chronic disease.... A few days ago my husband lost his job... and now I can’t offer my mother any monetary [...]

Case 2742024-03-17T22:48:03-07:00

Case 564

2023-02-14T22:17:44-07:00

I have lived outside my country for twelve years, and during that time I have been sending money to my parents to help support them. The first few years I was sending almost all that I earned because my mother has always had a lot of debts.... Then I sent some savings for her to [...]

Case 5642023-02-14T22:17:44-07:00

Case 244

2024-03-17T22:58:00-07:00

I am a twenty-six year-old woman, and the only time that I saw my biological father was when I was six or seven years old. My mother and my maternal grandparents raised me. I suffered a lot over not having a father in my life.... He went to another country after the last and only [...]

Case 2442024-03-17T22:58:00-07:00

Case 224

2024-03-17T22:50:37-07:00

My parents got divorced when I was young, and each of them began a new life. But my mother became very materialistic and authoritarian with her children, to the extent that if we don’t give her money or work to take care of her, she gets angry with us and treats us with contempt. It [...]

Case 2242024-03-17T22:50:37-07:00

Case 518

2023-06-08T17:09:57-07:00

When I was twelve years old, my parents got divorced because my father abused my mother so badly that a judge issued a restraining order preventing my father from coming to our house or seeing us. About three years ago, my father contacted me saying that he wanted to talk to me and meet my [...]

Case 5182023-06-08T17:09:57-07:00
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