“Dating is hard enough, but when you’ve got kids, the stakes go through the roof.

The danger of ‘lethal child abuse’ rises dramatically, especially for the youngest children, when there’s an unrelated man in the household, according to recent studies. Academics call this the ‘Cinderella effect’ – the propensity of stepparents, whether married or just live-in partners, to hurt offspring who aren’t blood relations.” (azcentral.com)