In this 21st century world of ours, there isn’t a ‘normal’ family set up anymore. In fact, me, my wife and three daughters are probably in the minority (although 2 of our daughters were born out of wedlock – oh, the shame!).
Most of our daughters’ friends, although seemingly unaffected, are members of families that have half-sisters and half-brothers, step-fathers and step-mothers. And that’s just the straightforward ones. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with this – life just deals a hand and you have to get on with it.
Society adapts to these various situations (sometimes at the expense of too much political correctness). Schools have to address letters to ‘Parents/Carers’ instead of ‘Parents’; same sex couples are just as entitled to adopt children as heterosexual couples.
A female friend told me the other day that she had left her husband to set up home with another man. It wasn’t long before she fell pregnant by him. She fretted how she was going to tell her husband – so she sent him a card.
I didn’t know they did them in Clintons but maybe they do these days.
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26/02/08 @ 22:40