No, we are NOT the "wicked stepmother" from fairy tales...

I am writing to speak up for all the stepmothers or “adoptive mothers” out there who are fed up being told by the ignorant that they are somehow “less than” because they did not give birth to a child. My husband and I have been married for 40+ years. I had been friends for some time with my husband and his first wife. They had two wonderful children and life was good. But his wife became very ill with cancer, and died as a result. So, he was left with...