Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy- stepparents don’t belong there. Only parents

What if the stepparents have been in the kid's life since they were toddlers and essentially helped raise them. What if stepparents are footing the college expenses?

Because you can't buy a place in my life. Nor can you force me to be cared for by step-parents when I was too little to do anything about it and then hold it over my head for the rest of my life. You chose stepchildren, but we all know was the price of admission to marry my father and you would rather he had been childless. I didn't choose anything. So I don't owe you anything. Especially not if it means excluding my actual mother.