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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just wait until the parents are old. I have so many friends who have to deal with their aging parents AND their step parents. Sometimes they have to battle with the step parent’s children, sometimes the step parent’s children have written them off so guess who gets stuck holding the bag on that? Even after the parent dies, if the step parent remains, often the child or wife is the child because it’s always women who get stuck with this stuff is stuck managing end of life care and support for a step parent. [/quote]

Piling on here, both as a divorcee and child of divorced parents, that my step mom has been one of the best things that happened to my dad and my family. 
We love her, and really enjoy getting to know her and her grown children. [/quote]

NP, and that’s great. My experience with having a stepfather is 100% disruptive and awful, always has been. I can name friends of mine with great stepparents; I can name friends of mine who had or have awful stepparents. Yes, blended families can be wonderful, or nothing but pain and difficulty. Shall we end the anecdata-off now and call it a wash?[/quote]

Of course I know stepparent outcomes can be all over the place. They can also be all over the place when parents stay married. Or when they never marry in the first place. Which is why this whole thread is stupid. Yes - it is all a wash.

What matters to children is stability and having at least one adult in their life who is present and loving. Marriage does not guarantee this. [/quote]

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