stepparent
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Our data also include families like Harris’—one in which a stepparent assumes a parental role.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2024
Administration officials said the action will protect about 500,000 immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens, and about 50,000 immigrant youth with a U.S. citizen stepparent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
"I didn't relish losing a second parent, and I had complex feelings about gaining a stepparent, who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar," Harry wrote in "Spare."
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2023
If the only issue really is that you've had to work at it through multiple challenges, well, that just sounds like the job description to me: parent or stepparent.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022
As if it’s not messed up enough for my mother to be marrying some dude who is not my dad, now I have to swallow another stepparent.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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