Stupidity with half brothers and sisters
To tell the truth, I think its flat out stupid to refer to a person as your "half brother" or "half sister"..It doesn't matter if you have the same mom and different dads or the same dad and different moms. You're siblings and should always be referred to as that. I wish people would stop this half stuff. All its doing is separating the kids and making them inferior to one another. As parents we must inform our kids that they're siblings no matter what. They are full siblings at that. This transition from using this term starts with us and we need to put it in full effect. Let's get rid if this word "half". All its doing is destroying families with superiority.
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This is something that I
This is something that I worry about too. My son who is almost 4 has only seen my SS who is almost 23 less than 10 times. But my son adores him and when he is around, my son is stuck to his side. I want to refer to SS as my son's brother but I don't want my son to think that that is all it takes to be a brother. We now have our daughter and it's the same thing - I think my SS has seen her maybe twice.
My SD13 refers to her
My SD13 refers to her half-brother (SS9) as 'brother'. However, she does have another half-brother & half-sister by her egg doner, and she refers to them as 'half-brother/sister' because she barely sees them. In fact, she doesn't know anything about her half-sister.. only that she has one. She does see her half-brother at school occasionally because his dad now has custody, as their egg doner was picked up and jailed on meth charges.
I have heard her recently refer to that half-brother as 'brother' more often now since she's been seeing him again, but mostly still says 'half-brother'.
I don't really care what she calls them, as long as she's comfortable with it. I would never make her call those half-siblings 'brother' or 'sister' if she didn't want to.