I found myself off work and watching Jeremy Kyle, seeing Dad's who raised children that they knew weren't biologically there's, verses Dad's who didn't even know they had a child. Plus a few adopted children looking for their parents.
I wondered if you've been raised with a step parent or someone you thought was your parent, is there any importance to your biological parent? The same if you've been adopted I guess. Is it disrespect to the adults that raised you as their own? Also is it unreasonable not to tell your children that who they've grown up looking as family, aren't actually family, considering you know the impact it had on your life when told.
I ask this as I was told as an adult that the guy I idolised wasn't actually my Dad. Although he raised me, I was a total Daddies girl, I think this affected him and his family as much as it affected me. I totally respect him for the sacrifice he made, everything he did for me, but obviously such a revelation impacts things. I don't know who my biological Dad is either.
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SingingInTheRainstorm · 24/01/2017 04:41
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