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None of that is how stepparents and stepsiblings work in the United States, where BaDIK is set. Step- is not a legal term; it is a cultural one.Josy doesn't have any stepfather.
The man who married her divorced mother is simply a man who married her divorced mother.
Secondly, as far as I can remember, the man who married her mother is not Tommy's father.
Again, Tommy's dad is nobody to Josy, as much as her mom is nobody to Tommy.
Again, I don't think Josy and Tommy are "legally" stepsiblings, because I don't think Josy's dad adopted Tommy and/or Tommy's mom adopted Josy.
- Your biological or adoptive parent is your parent. Not step, not foster; parent.
- So Sage and Tybalt aren’t stepkids. They’re the Burkes’ legal kids, and the Burkes are their parents. Adoptive, but for legal purposes that doesn’t matter. They’re their parents’ next-of-kin, same as biological kids.
- If Josy’s father’s wife adopted her (and she didn’t), Josy would be her legal daughter. Not stepdaughter.
- Your biological or adoptive sibling is your sibling. Again, neither step nor foster.
- So Sage and Tybalt aren’t stepsiblings either. They’re siblings. Adoptive, and if they ever fuck it’s not biological incest, but it’s definitely legal incest, and can still get you prosecuted in counties where sibling incest is illegal.
- Again, if Josy’s father’s wife adopted her, Tommy would be her legal brother. Not stepbrother.
- If your parent marries another person, and that person doesn’t adopt you, that’s your stepparent.
- So Josy’s mother’s husband (i.e. Clive): Stepfather. Whether she has a relationship with him or not.
- And Josy’s father’s wife (i.e. Monica): Stepmother. Whether she likes her or not.
- Your stepparent’s biological or adoptive kids are your stepsiblings.
- So Tommy is Josy’s stepbrother.
- Often (but not always), stepsiblings who live with one another long enough ditch the step- prefix and simply refer to one another as siblings. Which is why Tommy sometimes calls Josy his sister.
- But if they don’t get along, a convenient way to distance yourself is to insist upon that step- prefix, which is why Josy corrects Heather and others: Tommy’s her stepbrother, not her brother.
- Culturally, sexual relationships between step-relatives are considered incest. Legally they’re not.
- Stepsiblings fuck and marry all the time. Some people are hugely weirded out by it—namely parents who watched those kids grow up together. Others shrug it off—namely parents who married when their kids were in their teens or older, and figure they’re not really siblings. Varies case by case.
- Hence all the stepmother and stepsiblings porn out there: it’s a convenient loophole for any pornographer who wants to make incest porn, yet fears those counties and states where such porn is illegal.