# Gummint: About your stepmother... Groo: My who? Wha? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gummint-about-your-stepmother-groo-my-who-wha/482449 "2009-01-22T13:53:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gummint-about-your-stepmother-groo-my-who-wha/482449/27 "2009-01-25T20:27:55Z")
> [@itty bitty font](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/4): > > Am just wondering whether it swings the other way round too. I mean is anyone here married to someone who has adult independent offspring? Do you consider them as step sons or step daughters? I have a stepson and stepdaughter; Mr. Kitty and I married when they were nearly-10 and 11 respectively. I had no hand in their raising- actively went out of my way to avoid such a thing, actually, as Mr. Kitty and the ex had things in hand- but 12.5 years later I refer to them as my stepkids for expedience’s sake (“stepson-in-law” is a mouthful, though). A coworker married her husband when his daughter was grown; she has had fairly consistent contact with her since the wedding (dad was involved throughout the daughter’s childhood, so it wasn’t a case of absenteeism) and uses the term stepdaughter. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gummint-about-your-stepmother-groo-my-who-wha/482449)._