Andrea - posted on 01/31/2011 ( 2 moms have responded )
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How would you define the role and responsibilities of a step parent? What do you expect from a step parent? How involved should they be? Just overall, what type of step parent would you want for your child?
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Elizabeth - posted on 05/15/2011
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i believe step / bio parent should do same things not to be different and treat the child/children as his/her own my husabnd been in my daughters life for 10 half years and sh now is 13 and never met her real father which i call him the spern doner he never believed she was his daughter so never came forth and made himself as her father or even tried so my daughter has always thought my husband as her dad dosent even want to her real dad at all
Chantele - posted on 02/10/2011
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When I was growing up my mom and I had a rule, "there are no steps in our house!" This meant that her husband was now my father. I never regarded him as a step anything until I became an adult and that was only because I was telling a story that involved both my mother's husband and my birth father and I needed to differentiate between the two. I would expect that if I were to bring in another person to take on the role of parent then he should be just as hands on with my children as I am. He should be patient, calm, sensitive, understanding of the needs. I expect him to do the simple things like pack lunch and the extraordinary things like take time from work to attend school awards ceremonies and show up at dance recitals with flowers, and cheer the loudest at athletic events. I believe that the line between step parent and parent should be as blurred as possible so that the two seem entertwined with one another.
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