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A stepfamily is the family one acquires when a parent marries someone new, whether the parent was widowed or divorced. There is a counseling slogan, "Stepfamilies are born out of loss". For example, if one's mother dies and one's father marries a new woman, that woman is one's stepmother, and any children she already has are one's stepsiblings. Any subsequent children fathered through the new marriage, however, are one's half-siblings instead of stepsiblings. Legal status Although, histo ...
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