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Stepfather
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Stepfather 

a nonbiological father, the spouse of a woman with children by a previous marriage. According to Soviet law, a stepfather has no personal rights or obligations in relation to his stepchildren. He is obligated to support minor stepchildren only if they are being reared or supported by him and have no parents or if the parents do not have sufficient means to support the children. Stepchildren, for their part, must support a stepfather who reared or supported them if he is incapable of working or is in need of their help. A court may release stepchildren from the obligation to support a stepfather if the period of rearing or support was brief (under RSFSR law, less than five years) or if the stepfather did not properly fulfill his obligations as a parent.
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This study examined the relations between perceptions of 133 early adolescents in stepfamilies concerning how much they mattered to their stepfathers and nonresidential biological fathers and adolescents' mental health problems.
Relations between mattering to step- and non-residential fathers and ... by Schenck, Clorinda E.; Braver, Sanford L.; Wolchik, Sharlene A.; Saenz, Delia; Cookston, Jeffrey T.; / Fathering
14) For a large number of children, then, understanding family context necessitates understanding the impact of stepfathers in their lives.
Stepfather involvement and adolescents' disposition toward having sex by Kapinus, Carolyn / Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Billingham praises the emergence of Father's Day cards for stepfathers as a social recognition that the man living with the children may be someone other than the biological father.
FATHERS' EMOTIONAL TIES TO THEIR FAMILIES by USA Today (Magazine)
 
 
 
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