How do you feel about your child's step parents??

[Avaya]

I agree with you.  We have a vested interest in how our stepchild is raised and bioparent, like it or not, society places some burden of responsibility on how that child turns out as an adult.  Enter Christian parenting and it's even more difficult because we feel we have a moral responsibility to parent that child because we married his/her parent.  Then add siblings and then you have a responsibility to treat the kids equally - that goes for punishment as well as rewards.  I get so tired of telling my son he 'can't' when my sd's parents tell her she 'can'.  I don't want to allow him to do something I think isn't good for him just because she gets to do it and he's feeling left out.