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  2. Stepfamily - Wikipedia

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    A stepparent is the spouse of someone's parent, and not their biological parent, stepfather being the male spouse [2] and stepmother the female spouse. [3] A step-grandparent is the step-parent of someone's parent, and not someone's biological grandparent, stepgrandfather being the male one, and stepgrandmother the female one.

  3. Parental portrayals in the media - Wikipedia

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    In other words, they represent the fun parent while leaving the "residential parent" to deal with child rearing. These dads can be permissive and fail to discipline their children properly. [10] Richard Gilmore, a father and grandfather in Gilmore Girls, is a splitting image of this. Richard is rich and tends to buy his daughter's and ...

  4. Grandparent - Wikipedia

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    A step-grandparent can be the step-parent of the parent or the step-parent's parent or the step-parent's step-parent (though technically this might be called a step-step-grandparent). The various words for grandparents at times may also be used to refer to any elderly person, especially the terms gramps , granny , grandfather , granddad ...

  5. Stepfather - Wikipedia

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    A stepfather or stepdad is a biologically unrelated male parent married to one's preexisting parent. A stepfather-in-law is a stepfather of one's spouse. Children from his spouse's previous unions are known as his stepchildren.

  6. Parent - Wikipedia

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    The gametes of a parent result in a child, a male through the sperm, and a female through the ovum. Parents who are progenitors are first-degree relatives and have 50% genetic meet. A female can also become a parent through surrogacy. Some parents may be adoptive parents, who nurture and raise an offspring, but are not related to the child.

  7. Stepsibling - Wikipedia

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    The story Kate Crackernuts serves as a counterexample where the daughter of the evil stepparent is a loving stepsister. [2] Many romance novels feature heroes who are the stepbrother of the heroine. The step-relationship generally stems from a marriage when the hero and heroine are at least in their adolescence. [citation needed]

  8. Help:Pictures - Wikipedia

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    In such cases, text annotations can be added to an image with the templates Template:Annotated image or Template:Annotated image 4. These templates allow wikitext (e.g., regular text, wikilinks, and reference templates) to be included on the image itself. They may also be used to crop an image so as to focus on a particular portion of it, or ...

  9. Adoption - Wikipedia

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    A common example of this is a "step-parent adoption", where the new partner of a parent legally adopts a child from the parent's previous relationship. Intra-family adoption can also occur through surrender, as a result of parental death, or when the child cannot otherwise be cared for and a family member agrees to take over.