The title of stepmother is acquired by the woman who becomes the new wife of a father, this would be the non-biological mother of those children that her new husband has. This type of family relocation is called: reconstituted family; the masculine synonym for this term is “stepfather”, which would also be the new husband of the mother, acquiring a role of non-biological father of those children that the woman has. In ancient times, stepmothers were very common, this is because the number of deaths in women was caused during labor, the father was forced to find someone who could take care of the children he had In this way it was common for children of that time to grow up under the upbringing of a stepmother.
Nowadays, stepmothers not only see each other when the husband becomes a widower, but they also appear when a couple has divorced, this being the most common cause; this political kinship, like many others, does not have a totally determined definition, if it is searched under the rules of the Royal Spanish Academy, a description is found such as "Woman who acquired the father, who would take care of the children conceived in the previous marriage." This description does not refer to whether it is considered a stepmother to those women who were concubines before marrying and many other situations, therefore it lacks consistency, however society classifies as a stepmother a woman who has a loving connection with the father family, whether legalized or not.
Therefore, thousands of definitions have been taken to indicate that she is a stepmother, such as: a woman who must behave as a mother with those individuals who are not her children, but if she is the wife of her father; woman married to a man with whom she has children in common and in turn cares for children from previous relationships; In these two definitions, the types of stepmother can be classified according to the son who shares with consanguinity with the husband or not. That is, it allows us to observe the stepmother who has not given siblings to her partner's children, and the one who does share a child in common with the father of others.
