0 the man who is married to someone's mother but who is not their real father
1 a man who is married to the mother of a child but is not the biological father
In addition, six stepmothers and 95 stepfathers participated, bringing the total number of individuals assessed to 5,471.
Excluded as a ' child ' is a 16 year-old living in a common-law relationship with her stepfather, the suspect.
The kinship nouns father-in-law, niece, sisterin-law, stepfather, stepmother, and stepsister are actually very infrequent, as is the body-part term milk tooth.
When the biological father did not live with the child, father was defined as stepfather or other man acting as a father figure.
The remainder of the male caregivers included 68.7% biological fathers, 13.6% stepfathers, 2.7% adoptive fathers, 1.4% uncles, 1.4% grandfathers, and 2.0% other.
Both father and stepfather have subsequently died.
It is impossible to know, just from a label, whether a stepfather, or for that matter another relative, has taken the role of father to a child.
While still a child herself she is forced to bear him two children, who are then taken from her at birth (by the stepfather) and given to strangers.
