Doesnt Want Her SIsters Kids

Her sister wanted her to take the kids if something happened to her and was adding to the living will.  This sister doesn't want her kids, so what does she do?

Episode Transcript

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No, that's the Erica Show ong One. It's Arica and Trevor Ann's
on the phone, and you havea pretty significant dilemma right now. Oh,
this sounds so bad. It soundsso bad. Okay, my sister
approached me about leaving custody of herkids, my niece and my nephew.
Okay, to me, if herand her husband dies, and you know,

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they're in the middle of figure andout, they're will they're doing the
whole thing. The problem is,and I know this sounds bad. I
know, Okay, I don't wantkids, and I specifically don't want her
kids. Oh my gosh, Okay, with her kids, do you love
them or like they just fad orwhat? No. I love them and
everything I do. But the waythat my sister and her husband are raising

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them, they're prats, they're realbreaths. They're like the gentle parenting essentially
no parenting thing, and these kidsjust do whatever they want. And I
don't know how to tell my sisterI don't want her kids. Well,
hopefully shown bad and he just likenever in the near future, so I
probably wouldn't start with your kids arebrats? Yeah, yeah, maybe just

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you know, I, you know, I'm not sure if I want kids,
So I want to make sure thatif you know, people who have
kids should want kids, So maybethere's somebody else in your life that wants
kids. I mean, this isa big discussion. So like my husband
and I we need a living wheelbecause you never know if something can happen,
And we have discussed, like whogets our kids. There's a very
short list of who, like mymom would be the first person, but

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of course that's her grandchildren, soyes, she would do it. But
then my mom's getting older, Sowho who's next in line? Where do
I fall on that list? Idon't know. Yeah, I don't know,
because you have clearly said you don'twant kids, and so if I
were her, like maybe she doesn'trealize like I would want to know if
you don't want them. I wantto know that because I want somebody that
wants my kids, that will lovethem unconditionally and will embrace even their brattiness.

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So how would you handle the situation? What should Anne done? In
eighty six? So one O fiveone do you want to vibe? It's
the Erica Show. Anne doesn't wanther sister's kids in the living will She's
like, I don't want the kids. How do I tell her? What
do y'all think? Would you beable to tell your sister that you don't
want her kids? Angie? Whatwould you do? You may want to

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just, you know, talk toyour sister and just say, look,
I mean, as you can see, I don't have kids. You know,
I don't plan to have any kids, and I might not be the
best person for the job. Iwould say that I would want I would
want to know if somebody didn't wantmy children, because obviously I'm not here,
I'd want somebody that would want them. Yeah. Yeah, she definitely

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needs to not keep quiet about it. For sure. She needs to try
to get with her sister and comecome up with some other solution. I'm
telling you, Thanksgiving dinner is goingto be pretty awkward this year. She
might not be invited, Amaze