did you have school friends with step parents etc

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I went to school in the 1970s, and it was a small town, but I knew no one who had a stepparent. Only 2 boys were from single-parent families; for one, the father had died, and for the other, he had just gone.
I think it's good these days that it does not matter what families they come from though I know it can get messy in some circumstances. i was just really interested, as I really did not know until I was an adult about stepparents, etc.

Born in 1980, I can only remember one girl in my class who had a single mum and another girl who had a step dad. The rest (to my knowledge) were two “birth” parent families.

Yes. I was born in 1980 and I had a step parent. Actually I had two step parents by the end of the 80s as my dad also remarried.

My two closest childhood friends also had a step parent. Thinking about it I would say maybe 1/5 of the children I knew in the 80s had either a single parent or a step parent. We did mix in slightly unconventional circles though so I don't know how representative that was for the time!

No.
In the 60s and 70s everybody’s parents were married - to each other.
I don’t remember any single parents nor any step parents.

I remember step parents/ single parents in the 70’s in my small town. Also children parented by grandparents and those in care

Primary school 1982-1989: In the whole school, 1 boy's dad died when we were about 6, so his mum was a single parent. And 1 boy's parents separated.
No step parents.

Secondary school 1989-1994: In my year group there were I think 6 children whose parents separated but no step parents. And 1 boy whose mum had died.

I was born in the mid-60s.There was only one girl in my primary school class whose parents had split up. Her mother remarried and I assume her new husband must have adopted the children, as they came to school one day with a new surname.

I was at school in the 70s too and I only remember one girl in the year whose mum was a single parent.

I didn't know anyone with step-parents.

I was born in the early 80s and I only noticed friends having step-parents when I was a teen. A lot of them called their step-dad just “dad” though so if you didn’t know the family well you wouldn’t have known about it.

I was born in 1979, so primary school in the 80s, same class from age 4-11 and not one child was from a single parent family or had stepparents or stepsiblings. To this day I can remember the Mums and Dads from primary school and where they worked etc.

When I started Secondary in 1991, two girls in my class had parents who weren’t together.

I was a child with a step parent in the late 70’s. Noone else in my class had one, or divorced parents. It was a real talking point!

I was born in the 1970s. My mum was a single parent, and two of my friends were from single parent families. One the dad had an affair and went off with the OW, one the mum had left the family. It's weird how much we knew about what happened to the parents, considering this was when we were at primary!

Most of my secondary school friends had two parent families. I never felt any stigma from being from a single parent family, I'm not sure if anyone knew. I was bullied, but never for that reason!

There was one single mum, she ended up marrying a teacher from school. (In the 80’s).
She was seen as a ‘tart’ until she settled down with him, even that was seen as a scandal.
If that happened at my children’s school now no one would bat an eyelid and I would be happy to see a lovely newly married couple at school.

The only family in primary who where a step family where honestly feral early 90’s. Three of the children are in jail or have long records now. Everyone else seemed to be the 2 parent household till clearly by secondary the divorced started rolling in.

By secondary there were lots of unhappy teenagers with step parents.

I was the oddity with my family set-up at school in the 80s. Technically I had a two-birth parent family but my dad had been married and divorced previously so I had half-siblings. This was a major curiosity at our school and I constantly had to explain it. Some folk definitely looked down on me and my family.

I went on Guide camp in the late 70s and I was the only one in my patrol who lived with both her real parents. Sisters who lived with a step dad, one girl with a single mum, and two were in foster care (I appreciate the latter is unusual but I knew several others at primary school who had single parents/ lived with grandparents etc.).

No. I grew up in the 60s /70s.
No-one I knew at school from a single parent family or with step parents.
There was one family my parents knew who divorced and it was a huge scandal .

I was born early 80’s and my parents divorced when I was 3. I was the only one in my class with step parents in primary but there were a few by the time I got to high school.

I was born early sixties. Definitely did not know anyone whose parents had divorced. One lad his father had died.

I was at school during the 80s and quite a few of my friends had parents who were divorced. Especially when secondary aged.

I knew my mum had a stepmother, my uncle was my cousins stepfather, that my god parents were divorced (so their daughter) I also had 2 friends in Primary school. By secondary school, there were a few more. (1980s/1990s)

Primary school in the 80s: one child in the class had divorced parents, but no step-parents. Wasn’t aware of anyone else in the (small) school.

Secondary school in the 90s: a couple of children in my year had divorced parents and at least one had a step-dad (I didn’t know the other well). I’d imagine it was similar in each year.

Both schools were catholic schools in working-class areas.

I was born in the early 70s, so at school from the late 70s onwards. I remember a new boy starting at my school part way through the year. He told me he'd moved because his parents had got divorced, but I'd never heard that word before and didn't know what it meant.
By the time I was at senior school (1986 onwards), my parents were divorced and I was living with my Mum and brother. A few friends had step parents and several more were in one parent households.

Born in the 70s. Some people had parents who were divorced, but no one had step-parents.

I had one friend whose mother didn’t keep her dating life separate from the children. The children chose to move in with dad despite mom initially being awarded primary custody.

Now you mention it, I can’t recall many at school in the ‘80 and ‘90s! Definitely had someone in my class at secondary school who lived with just their mum and I knew someone from an activity group who lived with just their dad but not sure what had happened to their other parents. I’ve got a close friend whose dad died when she was little so they grew up with just their mum.

I was born in the mid 1960s so I was in school throughout the 1970s. Everybody had two parents. I don't believe that any of them were second marriages. The first school friend I knew from a one parent home was in the awful situation where his dad had died in an accident.