Divorce....

If you support step parent rights after divorce please go to the link below & sign the petition thank you.If Not thank you for reading this anyway.


[edited by Robin - Your Petition online link does not work and no petition was found. - When you get it fixed Please place this link in the directory - It is a shame that this would be your first post - ]

I hope you keep us up to date on how things go with the petition.

I recently found that the petition host removed my brothers petition for "Step Parents/Family Members Rights To Custody and/or Visitation Rights" without notice or reason. Since this has happened I ask that anyone who signed the petition or supports step parents/family members rights to e-mail your members of Congress and tell them how you feel. go to http://www.house.gov/writerep/ and find your state. and again thank you to all who at least tried to help change our laws!

I am curious to your story.

Can I ask you to share why you have chosen to ask the other members for their support?

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Robin

My b/f has a son he is now 7 years old. He and the other girl were friends with benefits, she wanted a relationship with him before the child he didn't want one due to she had 2 other kids he wasn't ready for the father role so she ended up pregnant and said it was his, they went to court because she was smoking in front of the child (has very bad asthma) and he wanted to take over. So while court he found out it wasn't his (it was 2 years now) so he couldn't do anything. But he still took on this kid as his own it was already 2 years. Now we go to the hospital several several times a year for the same problem but still he can't do anything because he not bilogically his the mom has sooooo much control that i hate to see him go through this.

i don't see how to sign for it.

i am sorry to tell you this nita24, but he is no longer a step parent. he has joined the ranks of being daddy. i should know i have two stepsons that call me daddy. its a wonderful feeling. let the child know that you love him/her and always do what you say you are going to do. remember, its not about who the parents are, its about the child. take care and best of luck.

i never knew about step parent laws and for you b/f to still want ot be in that child's life even though it wasn't his i give him props. a guy i dated had an ex wife who was a step parent to his 2 boys from his 1st marriage and when they broke off she only cared about the 2 they bilogical shared ( if that makes sense) and could care less about her one time step kids. she had been thier step mom for 10 years. i just could understand how she couldn't want to see them or have time with them. You parent them and love them and just up and walk away. now i am glad to see that there are some people who do care about thier step kids. good luck to him and you.