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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or do you plan these things around the child(ren)’s other parent’s custody schedule?

Example:

Tom and Mary are married. Tom has two kids from his first marriage, Mary has one from hers, and they have one together.

Mary/Tom have an activity planned with friends, let’s say its Girl’s Night and Mary is going out to celebrate her friend’s birthday, or, Tom’s friend has a suite for the football game and invited him. Something like that.

Are you watching your step-kids for the night? Or is the other parent turning down their plans because of a childcare conflict? [/quote]

They are stepparents. Of course they 'watch' the kids. They are family. [/quote]

I could see a stepfather declining to be alone with stepdaughters, for example, over the risk them feeling uncomfortable or making an accusation. [/quote]

No. If this is anyone’s fear, they shouldn’t have become a stepfather to girls. [/quote]

You don't leave a daughter home alone with a stepfather, period.  I had two close friends in high school whose stepfathers molested them.  One of their moms chose not to believe her, and it continued for years, and the other one moved across the country to live with her dad after it happened and has a very strained relationship with her mom now (and yes, she divorced him).  Don't leave a daughter home alone with an unrelated man.  Don't make exceptions. [/quote]

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