Do you love your biological and your adopted/step children equally?

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Who voted no that’s crazy!

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Y’all out here voting no are damn cold 🤦🏼‍♀️

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I posted a similar poll a few months ago because my mum is adopted and her 4 siblings are biologically related to her parents and she has always said they treated her differently and still do. So I was curious and asked if you have adopted and biological children do you love your biological children more? And the percentage was like 70% yes they love biological more! I was shocked and so sad for my mum to think that could be the case for her.

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I was fortunate to have a step dad that didn’t treat myself or my sister differently than his biological children that came after us. As a matter of fact, people at his work didn’t know we weren’t his biological kids until I was 22. 
We never used the terms step or half in our house. Siblings are siblings, family is family. So grateful

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I think adopted and step children are wayyyy different categories. I’d be interested in seeing the poll of just adopted and biological. Blended families can be so varying; how long the step kids have been involved, how often they are seen etc.

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I’m with everyone else, stepkids and adopted kids are totally different. My stepkids have a mom and I’m just the woman that married their dad and cooks and cleans. 😂🙄 If you adopt a child, you are their mother. They only have you. They aren’t spending half of their time somewhere else, with another family. I don’t think I love my stepkids less, I just love them differently. I love them, but it’s different. Not because I want it to be, but because it just is because of the nature of our relationship and the one they have with their mother. It’s different than the one you have with a baby that you made with your body, who thinks you hung the moon and loves you more than anything. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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My step dad treats me like crap. My step mom is fine. I dont have stel children but I can see how they can easily be treated differently. My issue with this poll is that it puts adopted kids with step kids. They are wildly different.

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Honestly Adopted and Stepchild is two different scenarios!
Adopted from baby or replacing as mother figure is one thing
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Stepchild- being a Bonus mom or an addition mother does not afford you the same relationship with a child, As the Bio Mom is still around!

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I am adopted by my dad (am my mom’s bio kid). My siblings (dad’s bio kids from previous marriages) treat me differently. My dad has never treated me as less than his bio kids. He and I have a closer relationship than he has with them. They resent me for it.

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This is biological and of course it is easier and more natural to love your biological child! Also, meeting your stepkids at 6 or 10. You will not have the same relationship! 
My stepkids don’t see me above their mom! And I wouldn’t ask them to! Their mom is in their life and loves them and they love their mom. It doesn’t mean I don’t care for them or do things for them. But I will not be delusional and try to replace their mother. They love her more than me and that doesn’t hurt my feelings.
Also, if you see step kids every other weekend, then how can you love them as much as the baby that grew inside of you and you take care of everyday?

Do you love your biological and your adopted/step children equally?

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