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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not surprised -- the Cinderella effect is real. Most step parents do not treat children well. And that is probably an understatement. [/quote] If it's real, please provide some links with legitimate statistics/data that proves stepparents do not treat children well. [/quote] Is it "real"? Not only is it real, it is pretty much taken as given by psychologists and sociologists at this point. There are decades of research on this and a simple Googling would tell you that. But this is probably most cited: Daly, M.; Wilson, M. (1985). "Child abuse and other risks of not living with both parents". Ethology and Sociobiology. 6 (4): 197–210. And a few more: Gelles, Richard J.; Harrop, John W. (January 1991). "The Risk of Abusive Violence Among Children with Nongenetic Caretakers". Family Relations. 40 (1): 78–83. White, Lynn (1994). Booth, A.; Dunn, J. (eds.). Stepfamilies. Who benefits? Who does not?. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Anderson, K. G.; Kaplan, H.; Lancaster, J. (1999). "Paternal Care by Genetic Fathers and Stepfathers I". Evolution and Human Behavior. 20 (6): 405–431. Daly, Martin; Wilson, Margo (November 2005). "The 'Cinderella effect' is no fairy tale". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 9 (11): 507–508. [/quote] Yeah, sad to say this is absolutely real. In these cases, I absolutely blame the biological parents too. Don't remarry if it means you will disregard the needs of your children. I mean, why are the biological dads not equally to blame in the situations the OP describes? [/quote]
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