Sentence examples for step relationships from inspiring English sources

A turning point, in treating divorce as a commonplace mainstream occurrence, was "Divorce, American Style" (1957) in which comic hay was made of the confusion of custody hours and step relationships.

I regarded them as beings to be wooed with all my strength, and so I made cookies, sculptured with clay and read them fairy tales, convincing myself that those stories about evil stepmothers (and those equally traumatizing stories about wicked stepchildren) had been invented to discourage "step" relationships and thereby keep them from upsetting the balance of the universe.

Finally in the last step, relationships were found between the results achieved in the first and second steps.

Flush terminal and distal step relationships were combined as nonmesial step relationships.

We used two variables from secondary measures based on UCInet calculations, and their definitions are [ 30]: - Size of the ego-networks is the total number of all direct (one-step) relationships of ego, plus ego itself.

Former step-relationships take work, planning and juggling.

The decision to nurture former step-relationships can mean accepting certain awkward situations, like waiting in the same hospital as your former husband while your former stepdaughter-in-law gives birth to a baby who would have been your stepgrandchild.

There's Shriver's intensely drawn portrait of a modern family: a step-relationship evoked with wonderfully matter-of-fact tenderness and unsentimental realism.

"We don't really know whether there is enough bonding to make a step-relationship survive the breakup of the family".

"An ex-stepmom — where in the world does that person fit in?" ONE-WAY STREET Sometimes one person shoulders the burden of maintaining a step-relationship.

From Cinderella onward, step-relationships have been fraught with competition and misunderstanding.