What an awful thing to insist upon!

Family is a fluid thing. We all have «aunts» and «cousins» who aren’t technically our aunts and cousins, but we call them that anyway because they are family to us! The same can go for the nuclear family. A lot of kids have parents who are technically stepparents, but they’d never think of calling «stepmom» or «stepdad,» because to them, they’ve always been «mom» or «dad.» This dynamic might not make sense to someone who doesn’t have a blended family, or to someone who had one that didn’t blend very well. However, it’s a real thing, and it’s cruel to act as if a child is «wrong» for seeing their stepparent as their parent. 

The teenage girl in this story has had her stepmom in her life since she was 11. She calls her «mom,» and her stepmom calls her «daughter.» All was going fine until her mom’s Facebook post made her grandma and father angry.