Dear Mike Cares, how would you answer this Dear Abby? The case of the stepmother's input.

DEAR ABBY: I'm writing on behalf of my partner of more than 10 years. He has three daughters ages 23, 20 and 16. While he's close to two of them, his youngest distances herself when she doesn't get what she wants or disagrees with his point of view on something.

Eight months ago, she stopped talking to him because he badmouthed a boy band she likes. He essentially said they weren't worth the money when she asked him to buy her a ticket to their concert. He was going to appease her, but her reaction was so strong, she didn't give him a chance to let her know he was going to buy the ticket anyway.

Her mother doesn't encourage the relationship or support the importance of her having her father in her life or regular visitation, although it's court-ordered. He tried making contact with her several times when this last episode happened, but she ignored his calls and messages. Now that her birthday is coming up, however, she had her older sister send her wish list to him via a text message. Should he buy gifts for a child who has ignored him for the better part of a year? -- GIFTS OR NO GIFTS

DEAR GIFTS OR NO GIFTS: Who the fuck are you to be writing on behalf of him, is he such a weak girly-man of a father he has to count on the step-mother’s advice? His daughter is a typical biproduct of a divorce living with the ex-whore of a wife who badmouths him at every opportunity. You should stay out of it, for all I know the daughter’s real problem is her nosy, manipulative step-monster, you know, the insecure, overweight, spray-tanned home-wrecker you see in the mirror every day. We have all seen your type, you pretend to want to help, but your real agenda is to be first in line for all his attention, money, and time. Rather than be in the middle, you should shut your one-sided pie hole on this matter and let him just send her a gift without your input or direction. Furthermore, I bet if you also sent her a gift that may make matters better since we both know you are the real problem, not the daughter, the ex-wife, or “your partner,” whatever the fuck that means.

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