I am very tempted to call child protective services and have them put the children into my care, at least temporarily . . .
Dear Claire,
I have a question for you regarding my friend. I think that she is a bad mother and I want to take her children away from her and help to raise them properly. She has two girls ages 6 and 4 and they are really cute kids, but they live in deplorable conditions. Their mother, who is also my friend, smokes weed and sells it in front of them. She doesn’t make them take baths on a regular basis and she doesn’t cook healthy food for them, (they usually eat out at least three times a week and when they don’t eat out, she makes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches). This woman has so many boyfriends running in and out of...
I started snooping around his things and I found three letters written by one of the girls . . .
Dear Claire,
I have been living with my fiancé for three years and we have a 1-year-old daughter together. My fiancé has always had many female friends and they often hang out together after work or even on the weekends sometimes. Usually, I will hang out with them but just recently (about 3 months ago) they started excluding me from the group. I didn’t really think much of it, especially since I don’t care for those girls very much. I just started spending more time with our daughter. However, I started getting suspicious of my fiancé when he was trying to pick an argument with me every chance he got, and everything I did was wrong. I know it was wrong, but I started snooping around his things...
I do not like his children. They are extremely bad and lack discipline.
Hello Claire,
I have been struggling with a decision that I need to make regarding my current boyfriend whom I like a lot. However, I do not like his children. They are extremely bad and lack discipline. My boyfriend doesn’t know that I don’t like his kids; he thinks that everything is going great . . . I often watch them when he’s at work and I try to take them places but they just don’t know how to act. I will give you an example, my boyfriend has two boys and they are 9 and 7. I decided that we would go have breakfast and then I would take them to the beach later that day. Claire, we couldn’t even get through breakfast . . . these kids are so bad, they wouldn’t...
There are a number of ways that a person can achieve their desire to parent a child . . .
Hello Claire,
I have a question about having a baby. This question is sort of your opinion more than anything else. Here it goes; I am 37 years old and I do not have a steady man in my life. Even though I don’t have a steady man, I feel as though my life is very complete. I talk with my girlfriends quite often, who are in the same position that I am in, with the exception of one of my friends who has a child. I feel like I am ready to have a baby and I was considering going to a sperm bank. My girlfriends are completely against this idea but I don’t see anything wrong with it. However, I do have some questions that...
