(n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the tradition of Saturday Night Live all three have already collaborated on the big screen, Akiva directing and Andy and Jorma starring as stepbrothers in Hot Rod.
(2) In a sign that the killing spree has left no sector of Norwegian society untouched, the royal court has announced that the 51-year-old was the stepbrother of Mette-Marit, Norway's crown princess.
(3) Though he greets my mention of it with a grimace, one of the more colourful aspects of his story is that – thanks to his father's second marriage – his stepbrother is the actor Daniel Craig, aka James Bond.
(4) Mercer’s step-sister, Carmen Nesnick, expressed shock and confusion over her stepbrother’s role in the attack, telling reporters on Thursday night that he was a “nice guy”.
(5) It would be better if she didn’t talk about her stepbrother’s suicide, she remembers the counselor telling her.
(6) Even if you aren't up on your Austen, it's the least likely candidate – her cynical ex-stepbrother, Josh (Paul Rudd) – that we should keep an eye on.
(7) The proband's stepbrother died of pancytopenia and rectal adenocarcinoma.
(8) Kim Jong-un also has four step siblings: three stepsisters and one stepbrother.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Murdo Macleod Julie Myerson, author, 54 What I wish I’d known… Our parents were always open with us about sex and sexuality, but when I was 12 my sisters and I suddenly gained two stepbrothers and Mum decided that the five of us - all on the excruciating cusp of puberty - should be educated about the finer points together.
(10) Anyone who lived through EastEnders’ live week, which climaxed in Lucy’s 11-year-old stepbrother Bobby being exposed as her killer, was horrified to see the mystery make a comeback.
(11) Joyce Greenberg, a retired financial adviser in Texas said her family had begun investing money with Madoff in the 1970s after being introduced by her stepbrother.
(12) After his first major role in 1995's Clueless – Rudd plays a stepbrother who acts as the Greek chorus to Alicia Silverstone's Cher, constantly mocking the acquisitive high-schooler and ultimately, yes, getting with her – Rudd returned to New York to spend almost a year working on The Last Night of Bally- hoo , a play by Alfred Uhry, best known for Driving Miss Daisy .
Stepparent
Definition:
(n.) Stepfather or stepmother.
Example Sentences:
(1) Incest is both more common and more severe in stepparent families.
(2) Adolescents in single and stepparent families reported more alcohol use than adolescents from intact families, for both frequency and quantity of use.
(3) Differences were found in reciprocity within the stepparent-stepchild relationship, satisfaction with the stepparent's role, level of stepfamily conflict, and degree of stepfamily expressiveness.
(4) Atypical family structures are described including those in which parents include: biological parents, stepparents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, sibs, foster parents, and their spouses.
(5) Child battering was more serious in families in the lower social strata, with poor living conditions, in broken families such as those with stepparents or absent mothers, and where parents were unskilled workers or unemployed.
(6) The hand preference of college students correlated significantly with the writing hand of their biological parents but not that of their stepparents.
(7) This study examined the effects of family structure (intact, stepparent, and single parent) on children's self-concepts, using Parish and Taylor's Personal Attribute Inventory for Children.
(8) In the present study, fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth graders from 1 of 3 family structures (both natural parents, mother alone, or 1 natural parent and a stepparent) were compared with respect to their susceptibility to peer pressure to engage in deviant activity.
(9) The half-million adults annually who become stepparents in this country have relatively little guidance available to them from mental health professionals or from the public.
(10) In the regression analysis, eight variables were found to be statistically significant-in descending order: social contact with peers in the neighborhood, conflict with parents, broken romance, economic status of parents, communication blockage with parents, school performance, stepparents, and broken romance, These variables have been salient in previous research and theorizing about adolescent suicidal behavior.
(11) It was concluded that the differences between the family systems in terms of their interpersonal relations and perceptions affect the entire stepparent family system and its ability to function adequately.
(12) These issues are: the mentally ill parent, the homosexual parent, stepparents, grandparents' rights, and parental kidnapping.
(13) This overall increase is attributable mainly to those subjects who had been raised by a stepparent and those who had been in a children's home between the ages of 11 and 15.