Granted, everyone isn't fit nor interested in becoming a step-parent.

The vast majority of domestic adoptions were "family or step-parent adoptions", he said.

Blended families (composed of step-siblings and step-parent's brother and cousins, for example) create dynamics which facilitate access to children by non blood-related kin.

When children do like their step-parents, they can sometimes feel a sense of divided loyalty.

It banishes step-parents from the world.

We would now ask the media to give us space and privacy, his step-parents Fran and Pauline Sweeney said in a statement.