stepparent

• “Children of a stepparent from a previous marriage are "les enfants du premier lit" ou "du second lit" depending on the speaker's relation to the said children.”

  beau-fils - French Word-A-Day

• “Perhaps the most striking, and potentially disturbing, new research has to do with children in stepparent families.”

  Dan Quayle Was Right

• “Some will eventually live in stepparent families, but because stepfamilies are more likely to break up than intact (by which I mean two-biological-parent) families, an increasing number of children will experience family breakup two or even three times during childhood.”

  Dan Quayle Was Right

• “According to one survey, nearly half of all children in stepparent families will see their parents divorce again by the time they reach their late teens.”

  Dan Quayle Was Right

• “According to McLanahan's research, children in stepparent families report lower educational aspirations on the part of their parents and lower levels of parental involvement with schoolwork.”

  Dan Quayle Was Right

• “The financial commitment to a child's education appears weaker in stepparent families, perhaps because the stepparent believes that the responsibility for educating the child rests with the biological parent.”

  Dan Quayle Was Right

• “I want to really stress that anytime someone is told to call a stepparent mom or dad, that - we consider that a major no-no.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “Children can be reluctant to accept a stepparent; raising kids leaves newlyweds little time to gain intimacy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Secrets of a Second Marriage: Beat the 8-Year Itch

• “Moreover, the author argues, family diversity in the form of increasing numbers of single-parent and stepparent families does not strengthen the social fabric but, rather, dramatically weakens and undermines society”

  Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

• “Whether you're a parent, stepparent, aunt, uncle, friend, or neighbor, make it known that you'll answer questions frankly and even help teens get birth control and not just so they can make condom water bombs.”

  The Huffington Post: Lisa Hymas: 8 Things You Can Do About Population

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