I will stop seeing my daughter but I will send money to her. Am I a bad person?
I have experienced the same situation with my father, at 7 years old which is when my parents got divorced. Long story short, it was daddy's little girl the one day and no dad for the next 11 years…(no financial support either). I will say given that there isn't too much detail in your explanation, you could approach it from a different direction.Being 23 now, I've had time to deal with it and think these are some things to consider in your decision making :● Financial support is great, but your daughter (especially if she's still young) needs your emotional support more than anything else.● She WILL grow to have some sort of emotional issue… Trust issues, abandonment or rejection. This happens because there's always a point where u realise that your parent up and left you… The outcome here becomes “why wouldn't anyone else” which becomes a difficult hurdle to get over.● Something she'll probably look back on is how the situation was handled. You and your wife should really consider her best interests and her father would definitely be in that category.I will say this, regardless of how a marriage ends, parents should always be very mindful of their children's best interests. In hind sight, I've accepted that my parents really didn't put my and my brother's interests above their own, and that comes with a price to him and I. I have forgiven them as I now realise that they're like anyone else and make mistakes. Save your daughter future troubles and find a way around the separation for her best interests.*PS: Saw that your post had since been edited with more info so I've adjusted mine accordingly. Apologies for any harsh commentary from the initial post*
Should I send my ex-father in law a birthday card?
We separated 4 months ago. We have spoken very little... his decision, not mine. We were together a long time, and I was very close to his mother, his father, and his brother. I held his mother's hand in the hospital when the cancer was too bad for us to have Thanksgiving dinner at home... I held his father as he cried about how helpless he felt when my ex's brother got back into drugs... I was close in a way I've never been to any other family except my own... It's his dad's birthday this week (I have not spoken to his parents since May, a week before he decided he was leaving me for a woman he met at work ) I love his parents so much... and I so badly want to send his dad a b-day card... Is this okay? I think I'll send his mom, dad, and brother (all of them have birthdays in the next 2 months) cards this year... but next year, I'll stop... what do you think? It would just be "thinking about you on your birthday; hope it's a great day" or something...
What do i do with the father after my robo dwarf hamsters birth?
Well I have a pregnant female Robo Dwarf hamster who will have her babies at any moment. And i was wondering about the following topics: Do i leave the babies alone after birth? What do i do with the father after the birth ( i don't want them to breed again)? and after the pups are old enough too be with out mother can put the males with the father? (if they have been separated sense birth)?
Do mother and child share the same blood while in the womb? If so, how?
While the baby is inside the mother, some of the baby’s cell, not a large quantity, manage to cross the placental barrier. They are absorbed into the mother’s circulation. This occurrence is called microchimerism. A chimera is an entity composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues. So the mother would be a chimera, carrying both her own and baby’s blood cell types.Interestingly, these cells can persist for years inside the mother. These cells are found in many of the mother’s organ tissue, including the brain. This persistence is particularly true if the mother breastfeeds.There is also evidence that identical twins pass cells to each other.This phenomenon is of great importance. It seems these fetal cells aggregate particularly around an injury or disease found in the mother. This occurrence has great significance in the growing research on stem cell therapy to treat cancer in the mother’s body.
Bio 30 Blood type questions PLEASE HELP!!- mother wanting payments from seperated father?
Let's look at the blood types one factor at a time and see what it says about paternity of the father. Rh factor - this is a simple dominant trait with essentially a dominant and recessive allele. The son has to be homozygous recessive but the girl could be homozygous dominant or heterozygous. If the two parents are both heterozygous, they could have both offspring so this does not address paternity. ABO blood type - this is a three allele trait with O recessive and A and B co-dominant. The son must be homozygous recessive (oo) and the daughter must be heterozygous co-dominant (AB). If both parents are heterozygous with the recessive allele (father Bo) and mother (Ao) they could have both these children so this also does not address paternity. MNS - this is a more complex two gene system but the M and N alleles are co-dominant within the system. Since the daughter is MN, at least one parent must have an M allele and an N allele (although one parent could be MN while the other could be M or N). In either case, neither the father or mother has an N allele which would argue against paternity by this father. In the simplest case this would be argued that the so-called father is not the father of the children because they are twins. However, they are fraternal twins and there are numerous instances of fraternal twins having different fathers so you can really only say that the daughter is not the daughter of this man. Just to be really real world, we now know that not all alleles always express, a phenomena called incomplete penetrance. I don't know if this is the case for the MNS blood group or not but this is part of the reason we have moved to DNA fingerprinting for paternity testing as it is more reliable.
Did parents really send or even sell their children away during the Great Depression because they could not feed the children?
My grandmother was a "home child" even before the Great Depression. Born in 1912 into poverty, she lost her father during World War I. Her mother always believed (and told her) that her father had died overseas in combat, although we learned later (around 2007) that when he came back to the States, she and her mother had been moved around so much that he could not find them, and so he started a new family with a woman he met after the war, believing them dead. (We found this out when her younger half-sister arrived at my father's house about eight years after she had died, hoping to meet her big sister, but unfortunately it was too late.)Because of the loss of her husband's income and financial support, my grandmother's mother could not feed and clothe her. Instead, while her mother worked various domestic-labor jobs, my grandmother was placed with families that needed free servants from the time she was about 7 years old until she was old enough to support herself in her late teens. Because of the attitudes of the time, her mother would not have been able to keep a domestic job if her employers had known that she had a child without a husband present, so often, my grandmother lived several towns away from her mother and rarely saw her. Grandmother refused to tell us anything else about those days, but they could not have been pleasant. Home children were routinely abused, beaten, and neglected in other ways (although they were generally fed enough to keep their energy up so they could, you know, work for 12 hour days every day). So yes, this was not only a common practice during the Great Depression, but before it as well. If you've ever read L. M. Montgomery's book Anne of Green Gables, what Anne went through between her parents' death and the time that she was adopted by the Cuthberts at age 11 is a pretty accurate description of what home children went through before the 1940s.
Should I live with my mom or dad?
go with mom. dad's are usually the more fun ones but lack the motherly advice and motherly bullshit. plus you said she's getting a new fiance who sounds like he could fill the fun void that mothers usually lack. with your father ; from what it sounds like his spouse is gonna be getting very worked up over this special treatment that could lead to some really bad drama. with the whole college thing see if her fiance is more supportive of your dreams. he should be able to talk her down. you said that you just met your friends so it shouldn't be that bad. but that's my opinion. follow your heart
Can male cats recognize their own kittens?
Male lions, when taking over a new pride, will kill all juveniles and kittens that are not theirs.SOME male cats will do the same thing. I grew up on a farm with a colony of barn cats. There were always strays showing up, and “drop offs”, that people chose to get rid of by dumping “out in the country” . Sadly, most of these were not accepted by the other barn cats and were killed, or driven away. There were always toms wandering in, which fought with the “dominant” males and either became the next dominant male, or were sent packing. Many of these adult toms would kill kittens they didn’t father. Not only does this diminish the competition, it also forces the female back into heat so she can be rebred.We had a favorite tabby that made the transition from being a “part time” barn cat to a “mostly” house cat. She was getting old and produced a single kitten which she tucked under the stairwell of our old, field stone, unfinished basement. Somehow, one of the toms learned she was there and although before, he had avoided coming near the house, he suddenly started hanging around the door and trying to get in. The mother cat would attack him whenever she saw him and we kids used to always chase him away….. but. On one fateful day, when the kitten was less than a week old and mom had left for a few moments, that tom slipped inside as my sister was leaving. She saw him go in and immediately went after him, but he flew down the stairs, grabbed the kitten and raced back outside in a matter of seconds. The kitten gave one shriek and mom appeared from nowhere and attacked the tom. He dropped the kitten when he saw her coming, but it was too late, he’d broken it’s neck.To this day, I’m shocked that he knew where to find the kitten, even when he’d never before been in the house, and that everything happened so quickly. It was probably less than 30 seconds from the time he entered the house until we recovered it’s little body. The female cat licked and licked her kitten trying to revive it and called for days . It was sooooo sad!