Woman Refuses to Let ‘Affair Baby’ Call Her Mom
Does the child of an affair deserve to be the one who’s punished?
Being a parent is a massive undertaking. It’s not an easy responsibility by any stretch, and it could come with a lot of pressure and stress. This can even more so be the case when blended families are trying to figure out how to navigate their living situation.
The US Bureau of Census estimates that 1,300 new blended families are created every day. And a potential of this sort of arrangement can involve children who were conceived through extramarital affairs.
These realities were highlighted in a recent online post in which a woman refuses to let a 3-year-old child, who was born due to her husband’s affair, call her ‘mom’.
Does the child of an affair deserve to be the one who’s punished?
A Reddit post published on April 18th, reported on by Rebecca Flood from Newsweek, has gone viral with an impressive 22,700 upvotes and 3,100 comments.
The author begins her post by explaining that she and her husband split up 4 years ago after learning that he had cheated. Despite the split, they still had four children that they were raising together, and now her ex-husband even has a child as a…
