(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.
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.