My Tribute to Step-Parents
My name is Laura Kathleen Lister, I live with my parents, Michelle and Adrian Tyson, Michelle is my birth mother, Adrian is not my biological father. My real dad is called Brian and if you ask me he is undeserving of the title “Dad”. He has fathered 4 boys and 4 girls by 4 different women that we know of and he is always “remembering” another child here or there. I am expected to just accept this and move on, have a relationship with the man who couldn't give a fuck about me.
Now my Step-Dad is deserving of the title of father, he has raised me through the proud times and the times I have disappointed him, he has fed me, clothed me and loved me from when he met me at 8 months old to now at 24 years of age and he continues to do so.
This man continues to be generous, thoughtful and forgiving of a daughter that didn't originate from him and although I am 24 I continue to be nurtured by this man as well as learn from him.
The man who knocked my mother up at 23 years of age is undeserving of anything from me, the deserted daughter, left to be raised by my mother and a man who volunteered for the arduous task. My Step-Dad raised two boys that weren't his also, an unforgiving job as the boys really didn't see what a gift they had in the man that raised them. A true man who tried to teach them how to be men.
So this is my tribute to Step-Parents who step up when others wont or cant, those men and women that see a child in need of another parent, those people who see a single parent and don't think of their children as burdens to be put up with whilst they have a relationship with their parent. People who decide to teach children who they didn't conceive, what it is to be a strong man and a strong woman.
A Step-Parent is one of the best breed’s of adult there is, a person who has taken on a child they didn't need to but wanted to.
If you are a Step-Parent I salute you.
If you have a Step-Parent, be you a child, teenager or adult, if they are deserving of your love, give it to them. If you have a Step-Parent who teaches you, tells you off, and raised you properly, then be thankful of the gift you have been given.
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A Step-Child!
