Summary relative
Summary relatives are people in a state of relationship that occurs between the biological children of a couple and the biological children of only one parent of the couple. In other words, half-brothers or half-sisters do not share their parents, sharing a family relationship, but not a biological relationship. A family in which one or both spouses have children from a previous marriage, is called the pivot family.[1][2]
It is wrong to call half siblings with a common father (that's right — "half", or half) or mother (that's right — "half -")[clarification needed][3][4]
Legal norms[edit]
 | The examples and perspective in this section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (April 2018) |
In the legislation of many countries, including Russia, stepfathers or stepmothers, do not possess individual rights and responsibilities towards stepchildren if they were not adopted or foster children. All rights and obligations, if they have not been limited by court order, to preserve the biological parents of the child.
References[edit]
- ^ "Gurko T. A. Transformation of Institute of a modern family // Sociological studies. — 1995. — No. 10. — P. 95-99" (in Russian). Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ "Selfhelp Magazine. Adopting.org" (in Russian). Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ Ushakov's dictionary, article "Summary": "half-brother, half-sister (son, daughter, stepfather, or stepmother). Step-children (children from the first marriage of persons who had joined each other in a second marriage, that is not native, not half-and half, but someone else's, "reduced" into one family)."
- ^ The dictionary Dahl: article to Bring: step-children. "Step-children, summarized, consolidated son, daughter, children of a widower and widow (movable or parents) who joined mutually in marriage; half-brother, sister; they strangers, and kept only the father and mother in one family"