what is the role of step-mother in our society.?

Answer 1

I think it really depends on how old the hids are when the parents get married. Also, it depends a lot on the condition of the natural mother.

The guy who said "ask one and you'll find out" was right on. I'm a step mom of 2 girls who are now women. I got them when they were 1 and 4. Their mother left my husband for another man and her drugs. She was only there for the girls when it was right for her. She ditched them on her rare visitation days and would call and only speak to one child (for about 2 years). You tell me, what is my role. I fed them, clothed them, shopped with them, got them to school and daycare, put my whole paycheck toward them and my new family, I love them and cherish them and they call me Mama. They way I look at it, I am an adoptive mother.

Another situation may be totally different. A woman who marries a widowed man when the kids are 40 at best will be a friend. Albeit a good and pesonal friend who is in the family.

I guess with step-moms, it is what you make it...kinda like mothers.

Answer 2

I am one - it is my job to do the mom things when they are at my house - to be supportive and encouraging, feed'em, make sure homework is done, run back & forth to doctor...etc. Just like a bio-mom does, but without the same credit and respect. My stepkids were told by a member of their family that they could now say they have a wicked step mother (on our wedding day, no less). We have to take flack and abuse from the bio mom and the grandparents, have our rulings overruled, get called in to do the grunt work. It is a real balancing act - esp. if the step mom has a child of her own, with her own family. Then you have to run into the problem of 'you let your child go, do ......' and are expected to make sure the step child does the same, but if your step child gets to do something, oh well if your child does.

It can be really stressful, but I love my step kids as much as I love my own child. It has been really hard, working thru all the other crap involved. Luckily, my husband and I can stand united 98% of the time where the kids are concerned, which puts him at odds allot w/ his parents and ex-wife.

Thanks for letting me vent!

Answer 3

In our society, in the United States as well as every other country in the world, a step-mother takes the place of the mother after a divorce in the family, so the father does not have to take on the hardship of working and also taking care of the children in the house.

It relieves the father of stress and he gets to be with someone he lives and that cares about him, as he does about her(in most cases). The step-mother takes in the children as if they were her own and cares for them, as a mother would do.

Plain and simple. Hope that helps you understand.

Answer 4

A step-mother has the unenviable task of replacing the birth mother in a family. She is very often disliked by the children who see her as the thief who stole their father. She has a hard time of it and many give up after a few years from the bitterness that often makes the home too hard a place to live...........

Answer 5

The same as a mother. Sometimes someone else is needed to fill a gap.

Answer 6

The same as the prior wife. She can never be the kind of mother your biological one was, but she can still love you differently.

Answer 7

Sme as mother but with some boundaries.

Answer 8

they are portrayed as witches who'll make children's lives miserable. Some kids get lucky. they get women who acts like a mother - strict, protective and misunderstood.

Answer 9

no idea bcoz i never have experience of step mother

Answer 10

To help and to sleep with the biological father !