With today's society and the way children are raised, many by single parents or dead beat moms who just use the kids a a paycheck or welfare or social security parents who teach their children absolutely nothing about morals, the difference between right and wrong, how to treat elders, and respect everyone. What's even more sad is that the child and parents do not care. Everyone seems to be so consumed in their own lives that they could careless about others. As long as they get theirs first who care right. This is wrong in my opinion. Two out of the three Step daughters of mine are like this. The youngest is 13 and she is growing up seeing how much of a horrible person her mother is and realizes that they way she has been raised by her is wrong. The other two I'm affraid are older 20 and 21 bother have babies of their own now and are doing to them what their mother's did to them. Using the babies as paychecks. It's sad and pathetic.

As step parents we have to pick up the peices that the parents have dropped during a divorce and what's worse is when the children are in the middle of hatred parents. What's worse is the parents usually can't put their problems aside for the children. So when a step parents come along the children either hate them from the beginning because the other parent tells the children that they don't have to listen or do anything the step parent says. This has been my live for the last 7 years. All I want is the children who are almost basically all grown up have have families of their own that I be my over backwards and sacrificed and loved them when I didn't have to. I was selfless at a young age of 22 and took on three daughters when I began to date their father, with no children of m own. Dealing with the I hate yous, your not my mom, and your a b*tch, and more. Now that the eldest two are 20-22 years old and have babies of their own they hate me, and because of me they don't want their father around theirchildren his grandkids until he leaves or breaks up with me. That's childish that they are acting likethis. How would they feel if their child had a step parents and treated them like this. My husband isnt going to fall forn their crap because we just had a son 7 months ago.

I better get used to the fact that step parents and myself will never get the recognition that we deserve and the thanks for putting up with little devils. All because the parents couldnt continue to be civil or tell the children to respect others no matter who they are. I know now I will never get the apology that I deserve because kids nowadays are to selfish. I just hope that my step children get twice what they have to me when they get older. I hope they get divorced and are miserable and their step kids treat them worse than they did me so they will finally see how hard it is and hurtful and stressful they can be. Here's to hoping and keeping my fingers crossed!!