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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Who is your father, the one you would rely on when you need a paternal figure, the dude who shoot his sperm or the dude who raised you? Hopefully both dudes are the same person but in the case they aren't, I think the answer is clear.

I'd be surprised if adopted kids don't consider the people who raised them as parents as their actual parents.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I mean first one might just be a father figure, second is the biological father and the third might be a step-father. All fathers of sort

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    You would be technically correct with the first two even though I was talking in social terms,not technical ones, but adopted kids are not step-kids. Those aren't are legally full parents, not step-parents. Step-parents might be the boyfriend or next husband of a single mother or vice-versa, but once you are adopted, if we are getting pedantic about it, the step thing disappears.

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