Spoiled, entitled or a young woman whose life was turned upside-down?

I’m gonna pretend like Kamiyah is her own goddamn person faced with a real fucking complex situation, not a possession to be traded around. smdh

Sigh. We were all children though and understand loving the one that feeds you...no matter how flawed or shitty they may be.

My statement was about the people in the article, not your situation. That is horrible and I don’t mean to lessen those injustices you face.

Look, the bio mom is a victim, and she has a right to her feelings- but she needs to share them with family, friends, support group, pastor or therapist - not the press. Her daughter doesn’t need to see things like this and it will just make the gulf wider.

There s no good answer to the situation - but this woman seems completely unsympathetic to what the child is going through and sees it as all about her. Shes never gong to have a relationship with the daughter if thats what she maintains.

Both of these ladies need counseling. It’s unrealistic to expect a young woman to suddenly turn against the person who raised her in favor of a woman who is, essentially, a stranger. No matter how abusive Ms. Williams may have been, no matter what the living situation, she is the only person Ms. Mangio knows as her…

We know that the kidnapper is not her mother but she believes that she is and HER feelings are the ones that matter. Not the bio Mom’s, not the kidnapper, not ours, HERS are the only one that matters in this. Trying to force a different reality on her is why they are in this situation now. She doesn’t get it, even…

THIS!! The Bio Mom has every right to be angry but she needs to understand what the daughter is going thorough and then they need to navigate dealing with it together. The Bio Mom doesn’t need to make demands of loyalty right now or make the daughter feel that her love is conditional, they will never have a…

I understand that but the girl does not, that is the only parent she has EVER known and her biological parents, unfortunately are nothing but strangers to her who expect her to feel things for them that she does NOT. That’s what people need to understand. She doesn’t have Stockholm Syndrome, this is her Mother, what…

So Seattle progressives are spineless, too? Good to know.

Not really. I think its less about being “mature” and more about having the empathy for your child that he or she is entitled to by virtue of that relationship. As a parent of a toddler, when she says things like “go away mommy” or “i dont want you mommy” I don’t get hurt or say “fine!” and flounce away, I just tell…

“I didn’t know this kidnapper had such a hold on her. I can see that it’s my child, but I can also see traits from the kidnapper in her,” the moother said.

Life ain’t fair, that’s for sure, I feel Shanara’s pain but she is going about this whole thing the wrong way. I was in a situation like that similar lucky for me my child was 6 when I got back into her life. I spent so much time angry at my child’s mother that I neglected to build a relationship with my daughter on…

Being in pain doesn’t give you the right to inflict pain on someone else, believe that. Too many people make that mistake.

Glad she’s owning her feelings. We cannot blame Alexis (as she calls herself) - she was a newborn, she was raised by Williams, snowed like everyone else by Williams, was bonded to Williams. Of course she’s going to send the woman Mother’s Day cards and feel the need to be in contact with her: she has no memory of…

What a shitty, shitty comment by the birth mother.

What is this?? Sounds like the girl was taken care of well, though not by her true mother. That is not abuse, and she doesn’t seem like she needs or wants counseling.

“I shouldn’t have to compete with a kidnapper—she has to pick one of us,” Shanara said.

No Mom, she doesn’t have to pick one of you, the kidnapper has been her Mother all of her life, it’s not going to stop because you wish it would . What you should do is try to understand instead of punishing your daughter. You’re the grown up here come on now.