Charlie Crist's wife loses custody of two teenage daughters

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36. Indeed, and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that.

My wife has a good friend who really doesn't like children and never did. Even when she WAS a kid, she'd spend her time reading books or playing with her camera instead of playing with other kids. She never intended to have children when she unintentionally became pregnant by her then-boyfriend. She wanted to abort it, but pressure from her boyfriend, friends (including my wife, sadly) and family convinced her to keep it and "give motherhood a try". Everyone in her family was positive that she'd come around once she held her baby.

Didn't work. When the baby was only a year old, she called a lawyer, signed away all rights to the kid, and walked away. That was six or seven years ago, and she hasn't seen the little boy since. She pays the father child support through the state, admitting that she dug her own hole on that one when she decided to keep it, but has no other role in the kids life at all.

The kid is much better off for it. She simply doesn't have the temperament to be anyones parent...heck, she almost let her dog starve once because she got involved with a work project, didn't come home for a week, and completely forgot about it.

Some people simply aren't wired to be responsible for other living things. She's a brilliant engineer, and a decent friend, but the wiring for "parenthood" just isn't there.