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Originally Posted by opaldancing  How did you get Faith? If she has a bio mother who wants her, why was she taught to call you Mama instead of her? Were you fighting the bio mother for custody of Faith? |
Opal, I may have this a little bit wrong, but Melissa has fostered Faith almost since birth, and I believe she is now three years old. It had seemed for a time that the bio-mother would not ever be in a position to parent (I believe she has other children as well) and that she would permanently be in Melissa's care.
It's not uncommom for kids in foster care, particularly if they get along well with their foster parents, to call them mom and dad. In this case, regardless of what Melissa was called by Faith, she has served as her primary caregiver for most of her life, so whatever moniker she had would probably feel like 'mom' to a three year old.