(n.) The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
(2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
(3) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
(4) So I wrote this everyday story about Jenny living with her father - and stepfather.
(5) In 2011, his mother remarried and Joseph, who said he suffered from Asperger syndrome, found it hard to connect with his new stepfather.
(6) Although we will all miss her beyond belief, we absolutely know she will live in our hearts forever.” Courtney Boyle, 19 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Courtney Boyle Boyle’s family confirmed she had been killed with her stepfather, Philip Tron, in Monday’s terrorist attack.
(7) The girl, her two siblings, mother and stepfather shared a rented room in Luque, a town on the outskirts of Asunción.
(8) His stepfather, Mick Jones, was a founding member of rock band Foreigner.
(9) Children's services at a council that came under fire over the death of a four-year-old boy beaten to death by his mother and stepfather have been branded inadequate by Ofsted.
(10) In this comparison of 59 incestuous stepfathers, 70 incestuous biological fathers, and 158 offenders against unrelated children, there were few substantial differences in psychological characteristics between fathers and stepfathers, but their life histories and marital histories differed significantly.
(11) Such conditions in the mother relate to the daughters' reports of adverse family experience involving maternal antipathy and neglect and physical and sexual abuse, most usually at the hands of a father or stepfather.
(12) His later identifications were affected by his mother, brother and especially his stepfather.
(13) Two survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, where 32 people died, were present, as well as the stepfather of an Aurora, Colorado, massacre victim.
(14) The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
(15) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(16) In the 50s and 60s, the American jazz greats – Charlie Parker , Duke Ellington , her stepfather, the trumpeter Don Cherry – were "treated like kings in this strange, clean place full of people who were obsessed with their music", she says.
(17) In this case, what I find it impossible to get my head round is that the mother and stepfather actually starved him.
(18) In 27% of the cases the abuser was the mother, 21% the father, 14% stepfather, 3% daycaretaker, while the remainder were combinations or unknown.
(19) I moved to Dorset with my mother and stepfather when I was six and, despite his sight loss, Dad would come halfway – sometimes all the way – on the train to collect me for the weekend.
(20) An 11-year old girl who became pregnant after being raped by her stepfather and was denied an abortion by Paraguayan authorities has given birth, in the culmination of a case which put renewed focus on Latin America’s strict anti-abortion laws.
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.