I am a happily-married thirty-one-year-old woman. I have a teenage daughter who is fourteen years old and a five-month-old son. We wanted him very much! When we found out that we were going to have a boy, we jumped for joy. But the day he was born, we were in for a big surprise: he [...]
I met a single mother who has a beautiful little two-year-old son.... We have now been together for three years. I love her son very much.... I treat him as if I were his biological father... but my fear is this: He doesn’t know anything about this, so how can I tell him that I [...]
I had a good childhood, though we didn’t have much materially.... Now I am a professional, and I have a good job, a good husband, and a beautiful daughter who just turned two. We stagger our schedules so that we can take care of her. My boss commutes daily from another city, and now he [...]
We are the adoptive parents of a beautiful four-year-old daughter. Her birth mother was a hard-working young woman. One evening, when she came home from work, she received some phone calls (we don’t know who they were from) and apparently went to meet whomever had called.... The following day she was found dead, having been [...]
I have a six‑year-old son who is very bright and extroverted.... He always asks me for money, but I hardly ever give him any (only when I can). He recently came home from school eating some ice cream, and I knew I hadn’t given him any money to buy it.... I checked his pockets and, [...]
A woman came to my house and gave me her three‑day‑old baby. My husband and I accepted the baby with high hopes, because until then we had not been able to have any biological children. Six months later, I became pregnant and was very happy... but when our daughter was born, my in‑laws began to [...]
We have a four‑year‑old daughter who is giving us a difficult time with regard to discipline, obedience, respect, and following our orders. She has become rebellious: she doesn’t obey, hits us, and answers us with arrogance in spite of how young she is. We have tried various methods of discipline, including not giving her rewards, [...]
