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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sorry you are frustrated, but I too have left a toddler with my 9 year old for a quick errand.  My 9 year old had a phone to call me at any minute and she's mature for her age.  Prayers to you![/quote]

Presumably you know how your 9 yo was raised though, you know her values, the types of things you've taught her over the years, the types of things she's likely to be able to handle. Now substitute with a 12 yo who you didn't raise and don't know well. Not sure that even most parents (IRL, not on DCUM) would make that decision, let alone the majority of them.

And no, even the dimmest haters could not possibly argue that a parent who sees his kid once every week or two has "raised" the child.[/quote]

If you have been involved with a guy long enough to have a four year old son and you don't know his 13 year old daughter well (who you have theoretically known since she was at least 7) then you're a shi%%y uninvolved step parent.

And hey here's a dim hater who thinks my dad helped raise me even though we were every other weekend until I was 10 them he moved to a different state and it was a month in the summer and every other major holiday. Weird how I feel like my real life experience of being raised in a divorced home has more weight here. [/quote]

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