(n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
(n.) A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, nursing interventions with clients who are a part of a reconstituted family fall into two major categories: (a) developing positive parenting behaviors, and (b) protecting the development of the stepchild.
(2) 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.
(3) Neuro-otologic examination in children, especially small children, is a kind of "stepchild" in ENT departments.
(4) The not at all smooth or laconic Powell, daughter of a social worker and a headteacher, was born and bred in Manchester and went to a local comprehensive which, by coincidence, her 11-year-old stepchild now attends (Powell has two younger children of her own).
(5) Mental representation as a psychoanalytic concept has never found a central place in the family of psychoanalytic concepts and gradually has become a stepchild.
(6) In an interview with the Guardian days before the launch of the stepchild of Megaupload, to be called Mega and marked with a defiantly lavish launch at the same Auckland mansion that was dramatically raided on 20 January last year, Dotcom said the targeting of his site was motivated by a "political agenda" in the White House, brought on by pressure from Hollywood bosses to crack down on internet piracy.
(7) A large majority (79 percent) had only biological children; however, a significant minority (16 percent) had at least one stepchild and 4 percent had at least one adopted child.
(8) Meanwhile in Blackpool, Ian Holloway will replace his portly Scottish midfield pass-sprayer Charlie Adam with portly Irish midfield pass-sprayer Andy Reid , who remains as unwanted by the Sunderland manager Steve Bruce as a red-haired stepchild.
Stepmother
Definition:
(n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of multiple effusions of blood of variable age located at the child's body the stepmother was noticed and accused of assault and battery, but the trial ended in acquittal.
(2) Every now and again, the bin lid came up a tiny bit and then went down again,” says his stepmother, Liz.
(3) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
(4) So they took me in for admission with my stepmother and younger brother who was just about two years old.
(5) Domestic violence also affects children, more than 40% of Indigenous children witnessing violence against their mother or stepmother in the NT, compared with 23% of all children.
(6) Saliu said she fled Nigeria in 2011 after her stepmother told her she would get her oldest daughter, Bassy, cut.
(7) My father and stepmother have said that they could act as a guarantors for the mortgage.
(8) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
(9) First, his lab technician father, followed by his stepmother, his grandmother, two-year-old brother and 13-year-old sister.
(10) Society, in times and places, has seemed to perceive stepmothers in a negative way.
(11) The novelist Martin Amis has given credit for his career in literature: it's not due to his novelist father, Kingsley, but all down to his stepmother, Elizabeth Jane Howard – and Jane Austen .
(12) They had likewise sold my stepmother quite unnecessary insurances, but repaid in full (£750) and sent me a personal cheque of £50 for my trouble and a Christmas hamper to my stepmother."
(13) An impressive case of a 48-year-old woman is reported who after parental divorce when she was two-year-old grew up under a wicked stepmother and developed various obsessive symptoms.
(14) Lee Hunter, Lisa Lees’s brother, wrote on Facebook: “For those who don’t know, Lisa is gone but never, ever forgotten.” Jordan Howe confirmed his stepmother had died.
(15) I don’t know what to do.” Mark Stocker has asked for help in locating his father and stepmother, John and Janet.
(16) Forty-two percent of Indigenous young people report witnessing violence against a mother or stepmother, compared with 23% of all children.
(17) His stepmother, an impassioned national socialist, later encouraged him to join the SS, the Nazi party’s elite paramilitary organisation, rather than the armed forces of the Wehrmacht.
(18) British Gas Several readers had complaints about the energy provider, including Andrew Joslin, who said: "My stepmother is a widow who lives alone 90 miles from me.
(19) They knew it was their fault, because the boy was seen as a collaborator.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Danny Fitzsimons’ father Eric and stepmother Liz are desperate to bring him home.
(20) We really are concerned that wherever he does end up he is safe," said his stepmother.