Yes, I've been away, but I did read your rant :) (needed distraction!)
My kids have two seperate sets of godparents. Our daughter has my husband's sister, and best friend. My son has a set of really close friends of mine (married to each other). We... unfortunately, have yet to make a will naming someone guardian of the kids - because we don't know many people who either have the means, or the background. Some have both, but we wouldn't want to impose asking. While we both believe that, should anything happen to us (and this was explained to the two godmothers and two godfathers) they are well able to step in and make sure that (whoever ends up with the kids) raises them the way WE would have wanted them raised - it's not legally binding without a will.
...and now I'm getting all morose again. I just wanted to say I look at it the same way you do - which is probably why it took my husband and I AGES to agree on any godparents, not because we don't trust the lot of them, but because we still don't know who we'd like to raise the kids.
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Date: 2007-08-08 04:43 pm (UTC)From:My kids have two seperate sets of godparents. Our daughter has my husband's sister, and best friend. My son has a set of really close friends of mine (married to each other). We... unfortunately, have yet to make a will naming someone guardian of the kids - because we don't know many people who either have the means, or the background. Some have both, but we wouldn't want to impose asking. While we both believe that, should anything happen to us (and this was explained to the two godmothers and two godfathers) they are well able to step in and make sure that (whoever ends up with the kids) raises them the way WE would have wanted them raised - it's not legally binding without a will.
...and now I'm getting all morose again. I just wanted to say I look at it the same way you do - which is probably why it took my husband and I AGES to agree on any godparents, not because we don't trust the lot of them, but because we still don't know who we'd like to raise the kids.