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How to Show Step-Child realationship


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By drpepper29 - Tuesday, September 6, 2005
When I click on the vertical line for a child I can see the pedigree and selected biological, but when the female gets re-married, how do I show a stepchild relationship, when the new male.  I hope this makes sense, I would have assumed that I create a new link then in the pedigree drop down there would be a stepchild choice
By V.L.o - Tuesday, September 6, 2005
You are right, for each of the male-female realtionship there could be a parent child relationship. For the link itself there are two options, foster child or an adopted child.

This issue have been discussed earlier on the forum...

Lookup here:

http://support.genopro.com/Topic7547-63-1.aspx

http://www.genopro.com/tutorials/

and maybe here:

http://support.genopro.com/Topic7458-63-1.aspx

By GenoProSupport - Wednesday, September 7, 2005
You are bringing a good issue about stepparents and stepchildren. If one parent does re-marry to another spouse, then the children are implicitly "adopted" by the other spouse, however an explicit link is better. GenoPro will have the "household" object describing what individuals are living under the same roof. This may be a partial solution to describe your situation, however "step child" link would be more descriptive.

I have been toying the idea of adding several new pedigree links, including "adopted by father", "adopted by mother", "possible child", and perhaps "step child". The reason this has not been done is because I have a long list of features to add to GenoPro. I give priority to features I am confident will provide a good value to GenoPro, leaving me more have time to find solutions to complex problems I don't have a clear fix.

This is a known issue and I am still looking for solutions.  All suggestions are welcome.

By V.L.o - Wednesday, September 7, 2005
I don't have stepchildren within my tree, so I'm not sure how Report Generator is resolving it, but I guess it writes complete families for both links...

Shouldn't it be regulated with "adopted by father" link in a way that report then says for a person... "biological child of x and y, divorced, step child of z"?!

By EnjoyRC - Thursday, September 8, 2005
I don't think there should be an additional link to indicate step-children.  It should be caluculated and displayed by the report generator.  If a woman had children with one man... divorced... then remarried another man... unless the children were adopted, they would be assumed to be step-children.  These children will ALWAYS be the biological children of the first man.  I have some of these step children in my tree.

1. I show the biological parents with one link
2. I show the divorce of those parents in their marriage link
3. I create the new marriage link to the new spouse
4. I create a second link from that child object.  An adopted link from the child to the new marriage link

Simply my two cents worth...

By V.L.o - Thursday, September 8, 2005
But it leaves bug in Report Generator:

Situation is:

A married B had a son C;

B remarries to D who adopts C.

Everything is right but;

In report for D

it says B and D had son C...

And in report for B

He/she had two marriages

First family

They had son/daughter C

Second  family

They had son/daughter C

By GenoProSupport - Thursday, September 8, 2005
Can you include a screenshot and a .gno attachment.  I will look at this situation.
By V.L.o - Thursday, September 8, 2005
Here are the sample files.

Situation temporarily might be resolved by deleting relationship in privacy options as in test1...

Just lookup for CC s marriages when you create a report...

By EnjoyRC - Thursday, September 8, 2005
Using test1.gno, every thing look great when I changed one child link to "Adopted".  As I opened it up, they were both set to "Biological".  Now the report looks fine except for no mention of an adopted son.
By V.L.o - Thursday, September 8, 2005
It's because bd-c link is determined to be deleted in privacy filter!
By 4Miranda - Monday, March 6, 2006
Rolleyes With all the questions I've asked on the forum in ONE visit, I can't believe I'm volunteering my opinion, But, I think a "stepchild" link would be great.  So many families today are the "his, hers, and ours" kind. It would work well if the children weren't legally adopted; but then, maybe I'm too new to genograms to know.
By rdn - Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Here is a tough one:  How do I create a stepsister, where I do not know if the one biological parent is the father or the mother?
By 42 - Thursday, April 27, 2006
Another tough one: (for when the programmers are bored......)

Mother has child out of wedlock(boyfriend/one night stand), which is then brought up by her mother(child's grandmother)as a surrogate (not adoptive) mother, while the mother then marries and has her own & husbands in wedlock children. Is there a way to correctly show this scenerio. Note the grandmother had seperated from her husband and brought the child up alone.

Thanks

Mike

By Reddy - Monday, August 28, 2006
42 (4/27/2006)
Another tough one: (for when the programmers are bored......)

Mother has child out of wedlock(boyfriend/one night stand), which is then brought up by her mother(child's grandmother)as a surrogate (not adoptive) mother, while the mother then marries and has her own & husbands in wedlock children. Is there a way to correctly show this scenerio. Note the grandmother had seperated from her husband and brought the child up alone.

Thanks

Mike

 

Oh this would be very useful.  I have a mother with a child born out of wedlock and when the mother married and emigrated, the daughter was raised by her widowed mother, while the mother had a new family in a different country. 

 

One parent adoptions would be very handy

By 457108 - Monday, June 27, 2011
The option to clearly define "stepchild", in my opinion, is extremely important.  There are some people who prefer to be clearly recognized as a stepchild, and not a biological child.  This would be extremely helpful.  Thanks. Smile