Re: inherited 3 teenage kids...........

Posted by Can't use my name on this on January 25, 2007 at 16:00:48 from (209.98.53.62):

In Reply to: inherited 3 teenage kids........... posted by Rob in Indiana on January 25, 2007 at 08:36:03:

You and your wife are to be commended for your taking these kids on. There will be challenges but you will find a way to work through them.
I was on the receiving end of this same issue as a kid at 15 years old after our mother passed. Dad had taken off several years previous leaving me and two sisters behind with mom. In the next few years mom worked her rear off to save money to buy a home and new car and make life as good as she could. We no more than got settled into a new home and community when mom was diagnosed with cancer. It took her in less than a year. Our mom had already taken the time to arrange for our aunt and uncle to take us kids in, in the event she did not recover from cancer. The last time she went into the hospital was the last time we ever got to see her. I knew something was up when getting home from school one day and the entire family was there. That was the day the lord took her home and our life changed forever.
I see you have already gotten in touch with a lawyer, good job, you may need their assistance, I know we did as dad decided to try to come back into our lives at that time and if he could not be a father to us before I knew he could not then either. I was old enough to make my own decisions as to where I was going to live but my sisters were not and the lawyers took care of that problem.
How my aunt and uncle did all they did for us kids still has me wondering how they managed to pull it off. Taking on three kids was no small task I am sure.
To this day I still consider them my parents and am grateful that we got to grow up in a normal home with a stable family and not as wards of the state or worse. That was 30 years ago now and I still feel very lucky.

Let us know how this goes moving forward.

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