(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.
Stepson
Definition:
(n.) A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patrick, his stepson, faced similar racial slurs as officers asked him for the location of illegal guns because, as he recalled an officer saying, “you fuckers are making more money a day than I am”.
(2) Speaking outside court, Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said the not guilty verdict was "a joke".
(3) He is survived by his wife, daughter Gemma, stepson Steven and stepdaughter Rebecca.
(4) Ian Phillips London • When listing the ways the government tries to wriggle out of its obligation to provide a safety net to the unemployed, Zoe Williams might have added a bizarre definition of "immigrant" of which my stepson was recently a victim.
(5) He leaves office with a third wife, a new baby daughter, another stepson and two grandchildren.
(6) Still, he compared Ashtiani's case with that of Teresa Lewis, who was executed by lethal injection in the US state of Virginia for arranging the murder of her husband and stepson.
(7) His loyal wife, Janet died in 1995, and his son also predeceased him; he leaves a stepson and stepdaughter.
(8) Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said: "It's outrageous.
(9) Tomlinson's stepson Paul King said: "I think it's pointless, it hasn't proved anything to us.
(10) Howard, with Iris Murdoch, writes her stepson Martin Amis in his own memoir, Experience , "is the most interesting woman writer of her generation.
(11) Their host was Fombah Teh Sirleaf, the stepson of Liberia’s president and director of the country’s National Security Agency.
(12) Paul King, Tomlinson's stepson, said: "If the officer faces disciplinary charges now, does that mean he could get away with not facing charges for the death of our dad if there is an unlawful killing verdict at the inquest?
(13) There was a castle on its banks and nearby an ornamental fountain, one that spouted not water but lava – the flourish, as I took it, of a middle-aged man who might have started playing this game to communicate with his stepson, but who wound up enjoying himself, finding his ideas irresistible.
(14) I was miles away from Ferguson, Missouri, when I saw a photo of a grieved father with his handmade sign immediately after his stepson, Michael Brown, was killed by now-former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson and his body was left in the street for over four hours on 9 August.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Abraham Chaparro with a photograph of his murdered stepson, Miguel Garcia-Moran, outside his home in Brentwood.
(16) He enjoyed the job and saw it as his ticket out of the Haven House, a shelter where he lives with his wife, Kristen, and stepson.
(17) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
(18) They handcuff you to a bench and one hand is cuffed to a rod on the wall.” He and his stepson were taken to separate windowless cells, handcuffed to the wall once more, and repeatedly encouraged to “help yourself”.
(19) Officers repeatedly using “a stream of insults, racial slurs, including the N-word, and threats” – including “bogus criminal offenses” – if his stepson did not provide intelligence on illegal guns.
(20) My two stepsons are in their 20s and in good jobs but they don't have a chance of buying a house.