I have a stepfather. It's a non-biological father type that married my mom.
How close are you to your step father?
Not too close but he's nothing like the "evil stepmothers" that are portrayed in literature.
Can you think of any "evil stepmothers" off the top of your head?
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Fiction.
In fiction, stepmothers are often portrayed as being wicked and evil. The character of the wicked stepmother features heavily in fairy tales; the most famous examples are "Cinderella", "Snow White" and "Hansel and Gretel". Stepdaughters are her most common victim, and then stepdaughter/stepson pairs, but stepsons also are victims as in "The Juniper Tree"—sometimes, as in "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", because he refused to marry his stepsister
Stepfather
A stepfather or stepdad is a non-biological father figure who is married to one's parent. A stepfather-in-law is a stepfather of one's spouse. The children of the stepfather-in-law would be the person's stepbrothers-in-law and stepsisters-in-law.
Culture.
Though less common in literature than evil stepmothers, there are also cases of evil "stepfathers", such as in the fairy tales "The Gold-Bearded Man" (in a