0 a parent who is married to the father or mother of a child, but who is not that child's own father or mother; a stepfather or stepmother:
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Remarriage raised a number of questions, such as how to make sure that the children did not prevent the step-parent from getting his/her share.
Sixteen percent of families in the high school group and 20% of families in the psychiatric group consisted of one biological parent and one step-parent.
Second, the information to be provided by the couple can include, where appropriate, information about the identity and occupation of a step-parent.
In a quarter of families a step-parent was present, usually a stepmother.
Two measures were constructed to indicate kin availability : the availability of at least one adult sibling and the presence of a step-parent (data taken from population registers).
Of the 128 children whose biological parent had remarried, and whose step-parent was still alive as the child became an orphan 75 were sent to an orphanage (59 %).
This figure, which includes offspring conceived after the remarriage, constitutes an upper limit on the proportion in step-parent households, while the figure which we have estimated independently is 14-7%.
Since then, subsequent legislation swept away the legal liability of the step-parent to maintain his step-children.
