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I think the 'take home' lesson from this is that you as a person, if you are in a position to do so, you should prevent other kids from ending up with 'Step Moms'.

Some people have suffered the problems of broken marriages but wthen grow up and end up having broken marriages themselves. We simply can't take the 'crap' our partners give us and prefer to separate forgetting that that singular action will affect the children for life.

I know some people are just so difficult to live with, I mean some are devil incarnate, take the case of one of my friends. Her husband was a proper 'esu laalu'. When pregnant, he will push her down the staircase and I am talking of a slight woman who was about 45Kg when she got married, she was so slim while the husband is 6 ft tall. This man beats her up regularly and doesn't pay a farthing for family upkeep. You think that's bad? Oh no, that's not all. They lost 2 boys due to his wahala, one was a couple of weeks old and the other one was about 4 yrs old when he died. The father could not care less. When he is angry, he will hurt everyone around him especially his wife but as soon as his anger cools, he will blame the devil for it and start shedding crocodile tears that he didn't actually mean any harm.
And that's not all, this man keeps a horde of girlfrieds outside home and maintains a high profile in his church! You know how we Nigerians serve God don't you? Anyway,after a while, this my friend starting falling ill needlessly and losing weight. To cut long story short, her doctor asked her to do another test since everything else failed - malaria, typhoid, etc and she was diagnosed with HIV.
As for me, long before this, I had told this friend to leave this man. Her only reply was that the man will not allow her take her children (she had 2 young ones now) and they will simply suffer and probably die if she left them with the man. When we learnt she had HIV, we were completely taken aback. And guess what, the man had known for a while that he had HIV and had been taken treatment for his condition and yet never used protection with his wife at home. YOu still think the person you are living with is bad? You can always swap with this one!

5 years on, this friend still says she doesn't regret not leaving this man. Her kids are doing well and she says the man is less vicious to her now. Perhaps age is telling on him or he is simply getting too old to constantly beat her up. One day, I hope I can indeed pen down this woman's full story but me thinks she should be given an award for her love for her children. Her life is not important to her as she thinks she has made a great mistake with her life but she doesn't want her children to end up in any bad way. Me? I have not set eyes on that man for almost 10 years now. Just can't stand him and his hypocricy, what if he puts an infected needle on the chair one is to sit on?