I typically do not post personal or overly personal things here (who wants to read THAT stuff?), but I must vent this:

Just because you did not give birth to a child does not mean that child is any less yours or that you are capable of loving and caring for it any less than one who has given birth.  Giving birth might be a unique experience to some (well, unique to the billions who have done it, unique being such a relative term for such a common occurrence), but it does not mean that you are automatically a parent much less a good parent.   

And if you are the sort who feels entitled to interfere with how others are raising their children (whether they’ve given birth or not) while you have raised none of your own nor have any such experience with the responsibility of raising a child (though you know all about it), you can kindly fuck off and rot under a broken toilet.