Noncustodial parent

Adulthood Everyone person at some point in life is initiated into adulthood. Some circumstances make a child enter into adulthood a little sooner than others. Entering into adulthood is a new world; everything is viewed in a different manner. Life doesn’t seem like a big happy fantasy without any problems anymore. I guess some could say that is when life is not joyful anymore. Regardless of the way adulthood is brought into someone’s life, it is something every person goes through. The…

oldest sibling. My family tree was always my dad, mom, me, and my little sister who is 8 years younger than me. My dad had always been the captain of the ship. He moved the whole family to America. My parents knew English but was not as fluent as my sister and I. I was the main the person that my parents came to when it comes to translating, or writing certain important emails for them. They knew only so much of the American society and culture, but they did their best for me and my sister. They…

he-” “But you let Hammad go, he’s younger than me!” “It’s not the same…” “What’s not the same?”, I knew full well what was to come next, but I pressed anyways. “He’s a boy” Now, I was never one to disobey the rules, especially not the rules of my parents. There would always be a little voice in my head, and a tug at my heart when I thought of doing so, telling me to listen to them, but this time was different. This was a matter of my freedom. I pushed myself off the floor and stormed out of…

could go, but my mother also still had the majority of visitation. During this time, we hardly saw my dad, but when we did, we enjoyed each other very much, and never spent a moment doing nothing. Truly, those times were the best I ever had with a parent. But, during this time, I also began to stray away from my mother, as this is when I learned that my life was wrecked emotionally for the plight of a woman bored of her husband. As I learned more and more about the cause of the divorce, the…

brought up by gay parents, then the child itself will become gay. Some may say that a child cannot properly be raised without a male and female influence. Others are concerned with whether or not the child itself will be comfortable with being raised by homosexuals. People that have more religious tendencies tend to think…

The faintest star in the sky. In Greek Mythology, Merope made up one of the seven Pleiades sisters, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Merope was the runt of the family and was shunned away when marrying a commoner. She hid her face in shame, thus barely visible in the sky. When she came to learn about the origins of her name during a bedtime story at the age of 4, Merope Aquino bombarded her father with countless questions a second. She couldn’t help it, her curiosity killed her.…

My family consists of my father, mother, two elder sisters, myself, and my younger brother. My parents are married; however separated since we immigrated here in the United States in 2005. My father, myself and my younger brother are currently living in California; though, we live separately. My father, Cornelio Jimenez lives in Hayward. My daughter, Kirrishea and I live in Oakland and my younger brother, Jaycee lives by himself in Union City. My mother, Lilian and my eldest sister, Leigh…

Similar to how the father may feel in “My Father Sits in the Dark,” Rita Dove explains in “Daystar” how sitting and doing nothing can be relaxing and a great way to think clearly and without distraction. “Daystar” reveals this by mentioning how the mother sits alone thinking for her own pleasure as long as she can in order to get away from her busy life. The first two stanzas of the poem show that the mother has diapers on the line and that there is a doll laying out in the house, though the…

concept of a father or parent leaving. As a child grows older the situation starts to sink in a little more. An adult can understand the concept of a father leaving more than a child does. Instead of feeling sad toward the situation they start to feel bitter about it happening. As an adult becomes a parent to their own child they begin to feel anger toward the situation that happened when they were younger. It becomes more of an eye opening experience. Its mind blowing as a parent that someone…

make it out to be. The main thing that parents want from a child is that they are healthy. Parents always say “I will love you no matter what.” But the couples will spend hours upon hours choosing the ‘perfect’ donor to be their child’s parent even though the child won’t even know who the other parent is. Until the child is either told or figures it out when they are older they will always believe that the two people raising them are their biological parents as long as they were there for them…