In addition, six stepmothers and 95 stepfathers participated, bringing the total number of individuals assessed to 5,471.
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Excluded as a ' child ' is a 16 year-old living in a common-law relationship with herstepfather, the suspect.
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The kinship nouns father-in-law, niece, sisterin-law,stepfather, stepmother, and stepsister are actually very infrequent, as is the body-part term milk tooth.
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When the biological father did not live with the child, father was defined asstepfatheror other man acting as a father figure.
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The remainder of the male caregivers included 68.7% biological fathers, 13.6% stepfathers, 2.7% adoptive fathers, 1.4% uncles, 1.4% grandfathers, and 2.0% other.
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Both father andstepfatherhave subsequently died.
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It is impossible to know, just from a label, whether astepfather, or for that matter another relative, has taken the role of father to a child.
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While still a child herself she is forced to bear him two children, who are then taken from her at birth (by thestepfather) and given to strangers.
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The two groups did not differ in terms of socioeconomic status, parental employment, having astepfatheror a deceased parent, or the independent variables in this analysis.
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But knowing herstepfatherto be a spy and fearing that if she accuses him he will create trouble for her boyfriend, she refuses to take this course.
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Smaller numbers of boys gave some other relative - a grandfather, father-in-law\\stepfather, sister or aunt - and their name, location and business.
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This excludes information, for example, about a child's prospectivestepfather.
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There are, besides thestepfather, the war widow and the child.
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It gives the example that if a residence order was made for the child to reside with thestepfatherhe would carry parental responsibility.
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An overwhelming number of cases involve the children's fathers, although stepfathers and neighbours are sometimes involved.
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