JBowie
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If you are raising a child, from age 3 months until she is 4 years old, then you do feel like her mother. How else can you do that important job for the child? One cannot merely be a place holder, a baby sitter, for a child that you , alone, care for 24/7.
No argument with that.
Do you think it is better to stay a bit disconnected and not bond as if you are her mother, if you have been her only caregiver since infancy? That sounds like a horrible way to treat a child in your care. Children need love and devotion and stability.
No argument with that either.
However, the point in discussion is that the FM talks about "LT" as growing up without her brother. FM is legally a carer -- "LT" is not her child -- and "LT" has other brothers, as the FM well knows, and access visits with the bio family are in place.
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