stepparenting en · NOUN
Etymology
From stepparent + -ing, modelled on parenting.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The role of a stepparent.
I had no concept of the secret truth of stepparenting: that you must win their hearts again and again, every morning, every night, for at least the first five years.
2007 September 16, Maria Dahvana Headley, “How I Turned Into a Stepmonster”, in New York Times: