[mom/step-mom]

I am so sorry to hear that the judge is making this difficult for you. I hope he pulls his head out of the sand and just signs the order. Sometimes there are idiots (judges & other people in genrel) who STILL feel badly for the non-custodial birth mom just for the very fact that she gave birth to a child or children. Never mind she is the one who walked out on her kids, treated them like crap, allowed them to expericence horriable things most of us in our right minds would never subject any child to, got HERSELF in to trouble with the law, repeatedly! Maybe that is just the deadbeat Birthmother who gave me my third child. Hang in there! Goodluck!