: About Me

My name is Becky Benson and my family and I live in Washington state. My husband and I have been married for almost seven years now and we have a five year old daughter as well as another baby girl. My full time job is as a full time mom and I love every minute of it. My girls are my world.

Aside from all of that I am interested in scrap booking where I document every photo captured memory of practically everything I do. I also like outdoor activities like camping, hiking, and mountain biking. I am a hostess at heart. I love preparing meals and events for my family and friends. Pretty much when you combine good food with good friends and a warm environment it makes for a great time.

I write for the experience and enjoyment of it, and to share my thoughts and adventures with everyone else. Last year I had my first book published, a children's book. It was a story I told my mom at the age of three, and very close to my heart. It's my creative outlet and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Well I suppose that's me in a nutshell.

My passion is ...

Cliche' but true...writing

I know too much about ...

Nothing, you can always learn more

My parents always told me ...

To go for it and to be happy

My childhood ambition ...

To be a published author

My favorite memory ...

Looking upside down out the car window to see the tops of the palm trees on my first visit to California when I was six

Why I write ...

My passion compels me

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Too many to name

My first job ...

Was a great learning experience

My best moment ...

Was the birth of our daughters

My inspiration ...

Comes from when I look into their eyes

Relationships & Family > Children & Divorce In divorce, should the father have equal custody rights to his children?

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Yes! Yes! Yes! How can this even be a debate? As if the importance of the father-child relationship is any less valuable to that of the mother-child relationship. Of course there are extenuating circumstances where EITHER parent may not be a suitable role model or caretaker for the child in question, but we are not talking about that. This is a debate for the right of a father, who equally created a child, to have equal right and responsibility in the rearing of that child. I write form the point of view of the sister of a wonderful man whose importance in his own children's life was overl...

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