Stepfamily

A stepfamily is the family one acquires when a parent marries someone new; for example, if your mother dies and your father marries a new woman, that woman is your stepmother, and any children she already has are your stepsiblings (if they were fathered by your father, however, they are your half-siblings instead of stepsiblings).

In many fairy tales, stepmothers are portrayed as wicked, evil, and hating their stepchildren. This is perhaps best seen (or at least most well known) in Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel.