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Originally Posted by Singlemom619
I'm with you here. I believe family is who you make your family - not who you share a blood tie with. My children don't have a blood tie to me and they are definitely my family. I have a "mom" that helped raise me for 12 years and even though she's not even married to my father (for over 10 years now) I still consider her family and my boys call her grandma.
If I heard my blood relatives kids' were in care I wouldn't try any harder to get them then I would if I heard my neighbors' kids were in care (I don't know my neighbors.)
If my friends' kids were in care - the friends that spend the holidays with us and that are part of our family - I would fight tooth and nail for them.
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and that is YOU. I was close to my cousin's when we were all living in the same area. but when their mother went wayward, the whole extended family kind of went different ways. But for those two little girls, family is family and family is who knows their roots, can tell them stories of their ancestors, etc. plus there are some family members they would benefit from still knowing, though they are unable to care for them full time.