I tried to get as much perspective from different children of divorce to get an idea of how they found their step-parents to be. 90% of the daughters complained about the stepmothers and 90% of the sons complained about the stepfathers. so here you are asking yourself the question, why is it that these cases are so frequent? Dear ladies/gentlemen, not even my 5th psychologist could answer that question. now that you are older you can gather some reasons yourself such as: