Reply #74: Must have been nice to grow up you

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

"If a custodial parent is stressed about how to keep a roof over what's left of the rest of the family, the heat and lights on, clothes on all their backs, and food in all their tummy's, then the childhood experience for the child is affected."

Ummm I came from a two parent family and we had to worry about that stuff... Most everyone *has* to worry about that stuff. Still maybe im a little sensitive because I saw my brothers X take him to the cleaners and then the rented an appt 'upstairs' from he new boyfriend (who owned the house) so she could have a different address and thus keep my brother living in a tiny one bedroom apartment..

"Leave the bitterness at the door and care about the child involved."

Most kids grow up with stressed parents, my wife has been rather I'll and some weeks I end up the only parent of two kids and caring for a sick adult... This idea that kids should never see their parents stressed will create a generation of adults who feel guilt and shame about normal human stress..