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  • · “Adult family member” is defined as “a person over 21 years of age who is the parent, grandparent, step-parent living in the household, or legal guardian” of the pregnant teen.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Sometimes this longing for yesterday hurts so intensely that I have seen sons and daughters who are marrying insist that a married parent leave a step-parent home: "It kills all of us to see them together," I have heard again and again.

    SaraKay Smullens: The Complexities of Letting Go SaraKay Smullens 2011

  • After all, she's now forced to serve as step-parent to an uptight child - William Charlie Tahan, Jack's son from his first marriage.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Other Woman Marshall Fine 2011

  • Continuing with these somewhat careless calculations, if there are 11 games in the season, and 2 days a week of practice, with an average of 5 persons present at practice give or take 1 grandparent, 1 step-parent, 1 visiting uncle and 1 silent nanny, chances are you will have heard "good job!"

    David Kersh: A Remedy to "Good Job!" and "Way to Go!" David Kersh 2012

  • Usually it is because they had a parent or step-parent who belonged in one hospital or another themselves but who managed to hold on by sheer will power to the world outside.

    The Gift Ann Bogle 2011

  • God help the poor step-parent who tries to step into the fray and introduce any sort of rationality and good sense to that guilt-dictated relationship.

    Dear Mariella: I live with a widower who still keeps his first wife's clothes in his wardrobe. I just feel like a second choice 2012

  • Some speak of how a step-parent included them in the funeral and treated them like her own child, some speak of how they haven't spoken to their half-brother since the funeral.

    Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Psalm 46 And Living After The Death Of A Loved One Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2011

  • · “Adult family member” is defined as “a person over 21 years of age who is the parent, grandparent, step-parent living in the household, or legal guardian” of the pregnant teen.

    Summary of the Parental Notice of Abortion Act 2009

  • Some speak of how a step-parent included them in the funeral and treated them like her own child, some speak of how they haven't spoken to their half-brother since the funeral.

    Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Psalm 46 And Living After The Death Of A Loved One Rev. Amy Ziettlow 2011

  • Having a daughter may actually spur more critical thinking about gender assumptions; but doing a quick survey of a man here, he says that becoming a parent made him examine these assumptions, and the process started with being step-parent to a son.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

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