With the divorce rate still on the rise, many children in the U.S. live between two households. As of 2014, the share of children whose parents had a shared physical custody agreement was 34% in the U.S. That means that a third of kids have essentially two homes, and one might be better than the other.
One stepmom recently went viral for her reasoning to put her two step kids into a smaller room in the house and give the bigger one to her biological youngest daughter. While the step kids felt it was unfair, she justified it by saying that they already “have two homes that are fully stocked with anything [they] could ever want.”
Yet the way she presented her argument rubbed some people the wrong way. People started discussing whether her reasoning was fair or whether she was masking anger