Reply #60: You were right to give up your child.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

It was painful, I'm sure, but if your parents are not also problem drinkers the child was better off for it.

There is nothing about being a biological parent that automatically makes you better or worse than anyone else to parent your child.

The "whore, slut" etc. part of your confessional isn't worth a response. These epithets get thrown at every woman. Grow a skin, and learn from the times YOU know you were wrong.

Ending a marriage isn't a bad thing to do. A relationship that can be broken deserves breaking.

It would be no favor to the child in question to grow up as an England-Graner. Imagine the shadow that would hang over his or her whole life. Best that adoption happen quickly, before the child can have the faintest memory of the birth mother.