NotAPretender
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Personal US experience
Within my own family, we have two "step" situations.
My sister was widowed. She remarried 2 years ago. Her son from her first marriage calls his stepfather by his first name. To call that man "dad" or "papa" would be disrespectful of his much-loved and sorely missed father.
My grandmother died in 1960. My grandfather remarried. We never called my father's stepmother anything other than her first name, Betty. Again, it would be disrespectful to my deceased grandmother to call anyone else by the title and style (dare we say rank?) that was hers alone.
(I was excoriated on another thread for stating that this was the case in the second instance. However, in that thread, "one must consider the source." )
Within my own family, we have two "step" situations.
My sister was widowed. She remarried 2 years ago. Her son from her first marriage calls his stepfather by his first name. To call that man "dad" or "papa" would be disrespectful of his much-loved and sorely missed father.
My grandmother died in 1960. My grandfather remarried. We never called my father's stepmother anything other than her first name, Betty. Again, it would be disrespectful to my deceased grandmother to call anyone else by the title and style (dare we say rank?) that was hers alone.
(I was excoriated on another thread for stating that this was the case in the second instance. However, in that thread, "one must consider the source." )