Step Parenting
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Step Parenting
For this assignment I chose to interview my uncle Benny and my co-worker Dana. They are both step parents and they both agreed to tell me what life is like to help raise children that are not your own. Benny has 2 step daughters Karliee and Jamie. He has been married to their mother now for two years. The girls' ages are 13 and 11. Dana is a step mother to a 4 year old boy named Tyler. She has been married to his father for 1 year. They will both tell me the ups and downs of being a step parent and the relationships they have formed with these children.
Benny married his wife Linda 2 years ago knowing that he would also be acquiring two daughters that he would begin to help raise. I asked him how he first felt about becoming a parent to children that were not biologically his...