Question: Dear Luise: My question is about Child Support. My Fiancé has a 12 year old daughter from a previous marriage. My fiancé gets child support for her. The 12 year old DEMANDS her support money every month, in that she basically asks for things we cannot afford. When her mom tells her no she tells [...]

Question: My son and dtr in law got married and had a son.  My son was in the army and my dil had to leave my son, due to issues, with my 2 month grandson. she didn’t go home to her morther’s she came home to me.  Its now been 2 yrs and my son [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I have 2 sons both with children. My oldest son has been in and out of a relationship with us and I have only seen his child maybe 10 times the child is 5. I have gotten use to not being a part of their lives. Although it still hurts and ai [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I recently lost my father to cancer about 2 months ago. I just got married in march 2011 and I am 6 months pregnant and have a 5 year old daughter.  My mother keeps wanting to keep my 5 year old daughter every weekend her daddy doesn’t (which is the 1st, 3rd [...]

    Question: Dear Luise: I have a 8 year daughter, who i only see on the weekends. i feel like we dont know each other that well. Her mood changes like the flick of a switch. and i feel like i dont know how to punish her when she does wrong..because i dont see [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I am a mom of 3 daughters, 17,19 & 21.The problem I have is with my 19yr old. She is in college over 1000 miles away. She has no respect for our family.  She thinks her friends have her back but they don’t stay around long when they figure out her attitude. [...]

Question: Dear Luise: About 6 months ago my family and I moved 6 hours away from our home town. My family includes myself, my husband, my 8 year old daughter, my 3 year old daughter, and my 1 year old son…. my husband is stepdad to my girls 8 and 3 and is an amazing [...]

Question: Dear Luise: We were unable to have children so we had the opportunity to adopt 2 teenagers from Russia, when we were in our mid 50′s.  I was SO HAPPY to finally be a mother.  It was a different part of life I had never encountered before.  I also discovered a different part of [...]