I'm in a very odd situation at the moment. I have a birth child and I'm just in the process of adopting a younger child.
The child is already placed with 'us' but for reasons I won't go into on here my relationship with my DH has broken down and he's left the family home. We hadn't petitioned court yet, but we are now passed the 10 week stage in the placement.
I've spoken to ss and they've told me they will support my application to singularly adopt my dd.
I know that's DH will still have contact with our birth child, but he's said that unless he can adopt dd (which he can't if we are not together) then he wouldn't want contact with her (very sad ). I know this will impact both children and I'm working with ss on this.
But from a single persons perspective, how do you deal with knowing, and coping with the fact your bc doesn't have a dad? Any issues or pot holes I may need to address.
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Thebluedog · 23/04/2014 10:32
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