2007-01-08 02:34:36 · 7 answers · asked by Tom K 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
I'm looking for a technical or legal understanding of the term stepchild--does it mean not a natual child, and therefore continues to be true after the adoption, or does it mean primarily non-adopted?
2007-01-08 03:30:59 · update #1
Some children come to parents by stupidity, contraceptive failure, etc. An adoptive child comes to one by choice.
Why not just call the child your child?
This step stuff doesn't break down barriers, it raises them.
2007-01-08 02:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you adopted a child that was not your spouses child, would you call that your stepchild? I mean is this really a serious question? Common sense would tell you that if you adopt a child regardless of whose child it is, it becomes your child. That is why you go through the legal process to adopt, to make that child yours.
2007-01-08 10:41:33 · answer #2 · answered by Stephanie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Adoption makes you their legal parent. They are your child, not your stepchild!
2007-01-08 10:36:40 · answer #3 · answered by GeekGirl 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you marry someone who has a child by a previous relationship and you adopt that child, they would be your stepchild.
2007-01-08 10:37:14 · answer #4 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. Once you adopt a child this is now your child.
2007-01-08 10:39:47 · answer #5 · answered by stringhead3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Pretty much once you adopt the child, that child is yoursssssss.
2007-01-08 10:36:39 · answer #6 · answered by Munya Says: DUH! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, once they are adopted they're yours.
2007-01-08 10:36:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋