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Acratopotes's picture

I'm bored again and started searching stupid things, like stas between skids killing SM or SM killing skids...

I stumbled upon this.... and I must say, I'm deeply shocked and offended and can't believe I was so stupid to believe all of you.... claiming you are disengaged, you feel nothing, you do not touch the skids, blablablabla

Now I have to read that you all are child abusers, those poor poor skids,.... it's either that or we need to tell those researchers about this site and all the SM's here - I just copied couple off things

"the Cinderella effect is the alleged higher incidence of different forms of child-abuse and mistreatment by stepparents than by biological parents."

"For over 30 years, data has been collected regarding the validity of the Cinderella effect, with a wealth of evidence indicating a direct relationship between step-relationships and abuse. This evidence of child abuse and homicide comes from a variety of sources including official reports of child abuse, clinical data, victim reports, and official homicide data.[2] Studies have concluded that "stepchildren in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States indeed incur greatly elevated risk of child maltreatment of various sorts, especially lethal beatings".[3]

Powerful evidence in support of the Cinderella effect comes from the finding that when abusive parents have both step and genetic children, they generally spare their genetic children. In such families, stepchildren were exclusively targeted 9 out of 10 times in one study and in 19 of 22 in another.[4] In addition to displaying higher rates of negative behaviors (e.g., abuse) toward stepchildren, stepparents display fewer positive behaviors toward stepchildren than do the genetic parents. For example, on average, stepparents invest less in education, play with stepchildren less, take stepchildren to the doctor less, etc.[5] This discrimination against stepchildren is unusual compared with abuse statistics involving the overall population given "the following additional facts: (1) when child abuse is detected, it is often found that all the children in the home have been victimized; and (2) stepchildren are almost always the eldest children in the home, whereas the general (…) tendency in families of uniform parentage is for the youngest to be most frequent victims."[3]"

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Acratopotes's picture

}:) }:) }:)

but because you do not play with them and drive them around - it's abuse!!!!

I'm not kidding I was actually laughing when I read the whole thing

Acratopotes's picture

could be that we interpret differently.....

I took it as it was stated.... but then I compared it to this site.... we all complain about the same things, husbands wants us to love his kids as our own, yet he could not care about his steps... (yes still step parent)

posters here have rules for their own children and as soon as they try an get the skids under the same rules there's war....

I'm only comparing it to what we complain about and I feel these experts have no clue what they are talking about, their 30 years of studies - where was it done, in Sudan, Uganda, Africa, Europe, Asia....

I know some groups treat non-bio children as slaves, heck in this country you can actually buy a child from a certain group to clean your house, look after your children and well.... sleep with the poor child, this child does not go to school, has no education and gets no money, just mat on the floor and some pap to eat.... the money goes to the parents.... it's nothing more then slavery in my opinion

Acratopotes's picture

wikipedia - whole thing... I just copied the most funny ones... there's actually worse things there that paints the step parent as a abusive asshole

SM12's picture

OMG. My MSS must have read this article. He claims that I am not like a "REAL" mom to him because I don't buy him things and make his 14 year old butt breakfast when he is at our house. REALLY?? So the boatload of Child Support that is paid doesn't come out of MY pocket too??
He actually told DH this bunch of bull. He said he wanted me to call him while I was out shopping and ask what he wanted. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Even DH thought that was a load of crap. Ok kid...treat me like crap and then expect me to buy you presents for doing it.
He is certainly a millennial..

BethAnne's picture

I am not suprised that step children can be more vulnerable to abuse. If an adult is inclined to abusive behavior they will have less inhibitions abusing their step kids than their bio kids. We know that here all too well that you cannot expect an adult to love a step child as if they were a bio child. We know here that step families are stressful environments and that resentments and jealousies are normal. We know that without the proper advise and tools that even relatively same adults can end up doing some pretty childish or crazy things when they reach the end of thier rope. Now if that step parent is inclined towards being abusive this seems like the perfect environment and the step child the perfect focus for that abuse.

I hope that some of the quote about not playing with the step kids and taking on a parental role are taken out of context in your quotes and are not implying that those things in of themselves are abusive.

Lit'l Bit's picture

I think some of the info could be true but I do not see proof of that here on this forum. One of my biggest complaints is that I cannot teach SD anything. Cooking, cleaning etc... stuff you know she should have know by the time she came to us at 18.

What bothers me most is that I am having a hard time making the 17 DS learn these important life skills because he doesn't think its fair that he has to do stuff his older half sister won't do.

I got lucky with middle daughter because she was almost 16 by the time half sister moved in so she had already gained the skills.