This theme—nice stepdad, "horrible" stepmom—was remarkably common, as was the tendency to consider a stepfather "another parent" but a stepmother more like "my father's wife," even when the ...

There’s almost nothing that makes a person feel guilty like watching someone cry. That’s what this person had to deal with when it came to their stepmother, so they asked the readers on Reddit if they ...

When I first began researching my book Stepmonster six years into marrying a man with kids from a previous partnership, one fact hit me square in the forehead: over and over, people with stepparents ...