Step-siblings are children born of two different families who have been joined by marriage, A male step-sibling is a stepbrother and a female is a stepsister. The step-siblings relationship is
connected through law and is not a
blood relation.
Step-siblings are sometimes abbreviated informally as stepsibs.
Culture
In many fairy tales, the central character has a stepmother and the step-siblings serve as an extension of their mother.
Cinderella and
Mother Hulda features wicked stepsisters who take after their parents. The story ''
Kate Crackernuts'' serves as a counterexample where the daughter of the evil stepparent is a loving stepsisters.
Many
romance novels feature heroes who are the stepbrother of the heroine. The step-relationship generally stems from a marriage when the hero and heroine are at least in their adolescence.
Some family
films
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and television
sitcoms
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new ...
feature a blended nuclear family including siblings as the center premise. In many cases, the step-family is large and full of children causing situations such as sibling rivalry, rooming, falling in love, and getting along amongst the children as popular plot-lines. This premise gained traction with the 1968 films ''
Yours, Mine and Ours'' and ''
With Six You Get Eggroll'' and the 1969 launch of the television sitcom ''
The Brady Bunch''. Some contemporary family sitcoms have made the blended family sitcom more popular with the
TGIF show ''
Step by Step'' bringing about other shows such as ''
Aliens in the Family
''Aliens in the Family'' is an American science fantasy sitcom that aired on ABC from March 15 to August 31, 1996, conceived as part of its '' TGIF'' lineup.
Premise
The show was about single dad Doug Brody (John Bedford Lloyd), who is abducted ...
'', ''
Life with Derek'', ''
Drake & Josh
''Drake & Josh'' is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows two teenage stepbrothers Drake Parker (Drake Bell) and Josh Nichols (Josh Peck) as they live together despite opposite personalities. The ser ...
'', and the short-lived
NBC family sitcom ''
Something So Right''. ''
The Life of Riley'' is a 2009 British comedy television series, shown on BBC One & BBC HD. It focuses on the lives of a blended family. ''
Kevin and Kell'' is a comic strip that focuses on a blended family. The
Disney Channel
Disney Channel, sometimes known as simply Disney, is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Compan ...
animated series ''
Phineas and Ferb'' also prominently features a blended family, chosen by co-creator
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh in part due to its under-use in children's programming, and his personal experiences growing up in such a family.
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