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How would Janey feel with a step sibling?

that is a good question, and I cannot imagine she’d be as accepting of a step sibling as she would one where the grounds are even like divorce baby. I guess it would depend on how the relationship is before there is one.

If there’s a strained/bad one, she’s going to assume she was being replaced if she’s a teen or younger. She’s dealing with hormones and teen logic. She would be hard to convince that she was more than just a memory from a former life, and I doubt the relationship would be good with the child either. She would be pretty shut off immediately about it.

If there’s a good relationship with the parent in question, she may feel a little better about it and not revolt if given time to come to terms with it.

in no case should one of her parents drop the news on her that she’s going to have a step sibling without both of them (being her parents who have a constant of joint parenting) being there to ease the blow and weather the storm.