Step-father


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STEP-FATHER. In Latin vitricus, is the husband of one's mother who is not the father of the person spoken of.

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Her mother had died in December 1887, leaving her with two step-siblings and her step-father.
Victorian waifs saved from life of suffering; BARNARDO'S CELEBRATES 150 YEARS WITH IMAGES OF ITS FIRST FOSTER CHILDREN
Charles Geekie QC, for Swansea, said the family judge was "plainly wrong in refusing to find sexually inappropriate behaviour", noting that the step-father had admitted sharing a bed with the teen "on more than one occasion".
Man did not breach sexual boundary with stepdaughter; SHARING BED WITH GIRL, 13, NOT WRONG - APPEAL JUDGES
The child's mother and step-father should have been handed the death penalty and the professionals who failed him should be jailed.
System failed Daniel; your letters
Giving evidence at Newcastle Crown Court, Hodgson said he could not give a reason why he stabbed his step-father in the chest and abdomen, but added he had felt belittled.
Murder asccused: I reacted to his taunts; Step-dad was stabbed
Yesterday the teenage fraudster appeared at Teesside Youth Court - where it emerged he was known to the Clarke family - flanked by his step-father to be sentenced for the six charges of fraud by false representation he had pleaded guilty to at an earlier hearing.
BOY,15, TOOK CASH MEANT FOR ABBIE CHARITY
The club raised the money in memory of team sponsor Ian Gibson, who was also Nicola's step-father.
Club raises money in memory of sponsor Ian
Precisely such families, including the role of the step-father, step-mother, step-son and step-daughter, experience the greatest difficulties during the formation of the new family system.
Self-relation of adolescents in a family with a step-father
Later on in the same day, at around 2pm, his step-father found him unconscious in his bed and he was then taken by ambulance to the Limassol General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Boy dies after nightclub fight
Mr Dyaswas always alone when neighbours saw him and they never saw anybody coming or going at the flat, which his mother and step-father had lived in before they died.
DO YOUTHS HOLD CLUE TO MURDER OF LONER? Neighbours left shocked by death
Summary: Khyra Ishaq's mother and step-father have been convicted of manslaughter at Birmingham Crown Court.
Khyra Ishaq deliberately starved to death
In a herky-jerky style, the various events and experiences in the lives of Spooner, his mother and step-father and his siblings are recounted.
Spooner
Together with a third man, who is the woman's step-father, they deny a total of 22 sex charges against her.
'I have never met victim' - rape accused; Relative denies knowing Cardiff schoolgirl at trial

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