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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Newsgroups: alt.child-support
- Subject: View from a Step-Parent (was: child support probs)
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:10:13 GMT
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- In article <Z13VVB1w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca> lisa@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca writes:
- >jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (jim mcnicholas) writes:
- >
- >> grease@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca writes:
- >>
- >> > Hey dickheads (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE)...with regards to Lisa and her
- >> > little girl`s pony
-
- >> > So quit pining for your lost loves and get a job...
- >> > ...miserable, sorry, pathetic excuses for parents.
-
- >No question Gary's post was anything but intellectual. I don't believe
- >it was intended as such. Personally, I felt he wasted a good opportunity
- >to contribute a different perspective that we hear little of on this net, that
- >of the "step-parent". Oh well, it was his nickel, I guess.
-
- >Gary was in animation for 10 years before he moved in with us. Its a very
- >"on again, off again" business, and he could no longer afford to have an
- >unstable, unpredictable income.
- > ... Now he works 9 - 5,
- >5 days a week and should realize an annual net of about $18,500.00, next year.
-
- >Now, Gary has given all but his cigarette money to helping provide for children
- >that he loves dearly, though they're not his.
-
- >I'd be most interested in hearing from step-parents out there in situations
- >like ours.
-
-
- As one of the "dickheads" and "pathetic excuse for parents" that Gary
- so lovingly addressed, here's a hard-earned nickel, too.
-
-
- When we lived in New York, I paid $650/month for daycare for my stepson
- (we couldn't afford 5-days/week, so I stayed home two days, too) (my
- wife was in graduate school, with zero income) and we had four people
- in a one-bedroom apartment.
-
- I had no complaints. A hug from him was more than enough.
-
- We received no money from his father -- nor should we have, IMO, because
- he should not have been required to support our living in an expensive
- city (now, Pennsylvania is a bit cheaper). And I made sure my stepson
- kept as much contact with him as possible, because I love my stepson.
-
-
- You know, I do have sympathy for your situation. And I have very little
- sympathy for someone who doesn't pay support, *provided* he was treated
- fairly and equally by the court system. (My stepson's father was
- emphatically *not*.)
-
-
- But I have no sympathy for a foul-mouthed jerk who complains about
- moving to a stable job to pay for stepchildren that he claims to love,
- and has no clue about life, responsibility, or IMNSHO, fairness.
-
- And I have little sympathy for opinions like those of Sue Bishop and
- others, who claim that NCP's should be LEGALLY (as opposed to "morally")
- required to pay for luxuries -- of any size or importance. Or that
- what is LEGALLY ordered is what is just.
-
- Don
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