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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It may involve intrusion (where the relationship has long been ended) and the invasion of a new and still rather insecure step-parent relationship.
I speak not only as a parent but also as a step-parent who has brought up children who were the product of a divorce.
There are many instances of children living with a parent and a step-parent.
I always thought that the pass was sold, so to speak, when step-parent was allowed to marry stepchild.
The step-parent and the stepchild could live together until 21 years of age and then get married.
This amendment seeks to allow an unrestricted right to marry between step-parent and stepchild provided that both are 21.
I intend to speak from the position of someone who has been a step-parent for the past quarter of a century.
Since then, subsequent legislation swept away the legal liability of the step-parent to maintain his step-children.
