Parents

Again, another curious thing about that other thread.

Do you know both your biological parents?

Do you only know one biological parent?
- Which paren't don't you know?
- (If you don't mind) What happened to the other parent (i.e split up when 5, ran out before born, etc)

Are you adopted?
- Did you ever search for your biological parents?
- If so, did you find them, how was it?

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I know both

well depends what u mean know.

know my bio mum, live with her. know who my bio father is but he was never around, they always split up or he was offshore working for weeks at a time. only have one memory of him when they were still together. they split up cause he was a serial cheat. i could pick him out on the street, i know what he works as and i know he likes alanis morissette and smoking. that's about it. i don't know what he likes, dislikes, what he believes in, his morals, how he reacts to things, the details of his face etc.

i know both

i know both but havent spoken to my dad for around 10 years and i dont care

Do you know both your biological parents?
not really. only know the name and that the other one was tall and worked in something to do with computers idk

Do you only know one biological parent?
- Which paren't don't you know? dad
- (If you don't mind) What happened to the other parent (i.e split up when 5, ran out before born, etc)
never been told but from what i can call it was a massive argument and they split up when i was around three or something

I know both biological and they're still together so i've been pretty lucky in that regard

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Originally Posted by buttons

well depends what u mean know.

know my bio mum, live with her. know who my bio father is but he was never around, they always split up or he was offshore working for weeks at a time. only have one memory of him when they were still together. they split up cause he was a serial cheat. i could pick him out on the street, i know what he works as and i know he likes alanis morissette and smoking. that's about it. i don't know what he likes, dislikes, what he believes in, his morals, how he reacts to things, the details of his face etc.

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damn this is awful, I can understand parents going their seperate ways but I don't understand how you can leave your kids

yea they've been separated for about 14 years and although he hasn't been in my life for the majority of it, you do still think about it and ask why.

he sends us cards and money but will avoid us in the streets, giving you conflicting ideas of what he actually feels. i think he wasn't ready to commit as he was young when my mum first got pregnant (19) but felt he had to stay with her and they had more kids even though clearly he wasn't cut out to be a husband or parent. when he eventually left, which should have been before they had more children (which is why i'm against a certain's someones belief that families should stay together no matter what), he made the decision to stop talking to us.

i think now he's older and understands what he's done to us and is over the serial cheating and that he's going to be lonely for the rest of his life, he regrets it. he's tried to contact my brother and asked to see his grandchild as well as getting his girlfriend to talk to us and get friendly but he's too cowardly to do it for himself. he's never going to see his kids get married or have the chance to be a grandad because of his own selfishness. i hope he does regret that.

anyway i try not to be too harsh because ive no idea what's been going on in his head and maybe he thought it was the right thing to distance himself from us but meh hopefully i'll never be in the situation of being that parent or having kids with someone like that.

moral of the story is if you aint cut out for being a parent, use protection and don't have kids with someone you don't love.

av both

Err I know only one of my biological parents and that's my mother. I don't know my dad simply because he doesn't give a **** about me, my mother tried quite a lot throughout my childhood for him to get to know me but he would just never turn up. I remember one time waiting in anticipation for him in my sitting room and drawing pictures for him but he obviously never showed. He seems like he's an alcoholic as I've met him in the pub before after my mother pointed me out to him and said I was his daughter. Other than that, I honestly have no clue what he even looks like. My mothers told me before we've passed him on the street a few times but I can't say I ever notice him lol.