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Ask Amy: I fear I'll never click with Maria, partly because of her lack of American cultural knowledge.
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Ask Amy: I fear I'll never click with Maria, partly because of her lack of American cultural knowledge.
Ask Amy: Does it matter that she's married to the best man? Plus: My mom died without changing the will. Should we include our stepsiblings anyway?
Abby hears from a reader whose adoptive parents are struggling financially and wants to reach out to birth mom for money, while a wife who has re-united with husband finds stepson hostile, and a woman offers tips on how to really help caregivers.
A mom wrote to the English parenting forum Mumsnet to reveal that she has different emotional capacities for her stepchild and her biological child, and her honest admission is an acknowledgment of her feelings, yet doesn't mean she's a bad parent.
A stepmom asked a family attorney whether a court could look into the mentality of a parent after watching her stepchildren go through multiple pets, showing no remorse when the pets mysteriously disappear or pass away.