| Absent parents may express feelings of rejection if their children verbalize positive feelings for the stepparent. |
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| Children may also show hostility to the stepparent as a defense mechanism against feelings of hurt and betrayal. |
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| Often, just as a child is beginning to warm up to the new stepparent, he or she may suddenly pull away and act out. |
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| The children who are present when the stepfamily comes into existence clearly belong to a stepfamily-they live with a stepparent. |
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| On the positive side, younger children usually adapt better, especially when they have always known the stepparent. |
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| Many children do enjoy or benefit from the presence and affection of a stepparent. |
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| And any financial support that your stepparent provides will be counted as untaxed income on the Fafsa. |
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| In the latter case, the child becomes part of a stepparent family, which is another form of two-parent family. |
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| What is proper etiquette for maintaining contact with a onetime kind of stepparent? |
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| It's common for children to feel disloyal to their absent parent when they show affection to their new stepparent. |
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| This isn't a feeling that will disappear quickly, and as a stepparent it will take a tremendous amount of patience and understanding on your part to properly reply to it. |
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| As you work towards acceptance of the new household arrangement, it's critical that the children see their biological parent and new stepparent united in all facets of family life. |
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| Judges have used various approaches to calculate the amount of child support a stepparent would pay under both the Federal Child Support Guidelines and provincial and territorial legislation. |
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| These terms are used interchangeably, partly to acknowledge the fact that the mother's or father's new partner may not be perceived, or perceive themselves, as a stepparent. |
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| What you did was completely the opposite to what a parent or stepparent should've done. |
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| In general, in any kind of stepparent relationship, I'm happy that there's somebody else loving my children. |
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| It can be positive when a stepparent adopts the biological child of their partner or spouse. |
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| Money sometimes enters the equation too, Ms. Keller added, if biological children resent a parent's spending their presumed inheritance on care for an ailing stepparent. |
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| In 2009, more than 7 percent of children lived with at least one stepparent, yet much of the research and writing on the topic centers on how the adults navigate their new family dynamic. |
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| The ruling was opposed by various religious and community groups who argued that a second woman's relationship with the child was no different than that of a stepparent, guardian or other caring relative. |
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| Adoption may be the most prominent example, in which case a biological parent's rights must be fully extinguished in order for the child to be placed for adoption with a stepparent. |
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| In most of these families it was all right to call the stepparent by the first name, and to feel closer to and spend more time with the biological parent. |
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| No longer is it unheard of for a child to have a second experience of lone-parent life after a parent and stepparent break up, followed perhaps by a second stepfamily. |
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| Stepparents have no legal authority in relation to the children, except in cases where an order, as noted above, is in place that bestows custodial or adoptive rights on the stepparent. |
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| How will the children address their new stepparent? |
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| Once a step-parent relationship has been established, the obligations of that stepparent towards the children are similar to those of the natural parents. |
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