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stepfo dher

  • n  the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage

  • A few minutes later, her former stepfather's wife Jackie Barrett left the sandbar where they had been sunning themselves and followed Campbell.
  • If the mother and stepfather of the bride play hosts at the ceremony, the father and stepmother can be hosts at the reception.
  • A divisive controversy over legalizing abortion arises after the Vatican excommunicates a family for having a girl, raped by her stepfather, undergo the procedure.
News & Articles

  • Stepfather charged with homicide
    By Bob Stiles, Tribune-Review A 22-month-old boy was in a body cast when his stepfather allegedly placed his hand over the child’s mouth and nose and smothered him last ...
    June 12, 2013 - The Mckeesport Daily News
  • Stepfather locates runaway through escort ad
    TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The Pierce County prosecutor says a man looking for his runaway 15-year-old stepdaughter located her through an Internet prostitution ad and helped police locate two men now charged with promoting sex abuse. Prosecutor Mark Lindquist says a friend of the stepfather arranged to meet the girl Monday at a motel in Fife, Wash., near Tacoma, and police were alerted. They found ...
    June 12, 2013 - The Wenatchee World
  • 20-year-old who shot stepfather pleads guilty
    A Texarkana man who fatally shot his stepfather with his shotgun in 2011 pleaded guilty to manslaughter June 4 in Miller County and received 10 years’ probation.
    June 12, 2013 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Quotes

  • Esther Rantzen in AFP
    Mothers can sometimes sexually abuse their sons. And the report found that when girls are sexually abused, by far the most common perpetrator is not a stepfather, as many believe, but the biological father,said Rantzen.
  • Jennifer Connelly in soFeminine.co.uk
    We absolutely considered adopting,Jennifer said. "We have a son who went through a separation of his parents and then a new stepfather and a new sibling. He's had a lot of change so of course I really have to be sensitive to him. These are...
  • Bruce Willis in Sky News
    Demi is the mother of my children and Ashton is the stepfather of my children,Bruce concluded.

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