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[quote=Anonymous]There are really three questions here and they're being muddied together.

1) Did your stepdad make a bad/immoral decision when he disinherited his children (although it seemed like he disinherited your generation at large)

This is a complicated question that no one here, and not even OP or her mom, can answer because no one really knows. There is a myriad of circumstance that bends the answer one way or the other

2) Did OP herself do anything wrong?

3) Is OP morally obligated in some way to right a possible wrong committed by a man she was admittedly not close to?

I would argue this is a solid no too. First, OP has no idea really if these people were legitimately horrible or wronged and she has no ability to find out. Second, OP's kids built a relationship with this man that was likely entirely genuine as they knew him from being small children. They loved each other enough that he wanted to set them up. OP and the other kids are grown established adults. OP is not benefitting here and OP is under no obligation to deprive her children of a gift just because it is possible that her stepdad was a crappy person. [/quote]

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