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stepparenting en · NOUN

Etymology

From stepparent + -ing, modelled on parenting.

Meanings

  1. (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: