the man or woman who ismarriedto someone'smotherorfatherbut who is nottheirrealfatherormother
继父;继母
Examplesofstepparent
stepparent
Adoptive and stepparents participated but did not complete diagnostic interviews.
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Half of the households included married biological parents, 10% had married stepparents, and one family included married adoptive parents.
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Growing up with single parents and stepparents : long-term effects on family solidarity.
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Other types of raters (stepparents, adoptive parents, or other guardians) provided ratings for less than 1% of the sample.
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Family violence was split evenly between biological parents (46%) and parent -stepparentpairs (54%).
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Obligations to stepparents acquired in later life : relationship quality and acuity of needs.
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However, they were older than the other children and more likely to live in a single-parent orstepparentfamily.
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Attitudes regarding obligations to assist an older parent orstepparentfollowing later-life remarriage.
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Most (77.9%) of the youth lived in two-parent (biological, adopted, or stepparents) families.
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A categorical indicator of family structure is used, distinguishing youths in intact two-natural-parent families (coded 1) from those in single-parent orstepparentfamilies (coded 0).
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At the start of the study, 79 families were intact, 45 had a single parent, 57 had astepparent, and 23 had experienced three or more transitions.
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When one in three marriages ends in divorce and stepparents multiply, these deficiencies are daunting.
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More of the children adopted by parents and stepparents are the legitimate children of a former marriage.
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That relationship would be quite different if thestepparentregarded himself or herself not only as a parent but as a possible husband or wife.
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The same thing could happen to stepparents in cases where the real parents have died or neglected the child, or even badly treated it.
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