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She doesn’t want to call me Mum

Q My 16-year-old stepdaughter refuses to call me Mum. She calls her mother ‘Mummy’, so I wasn’t taking that name, but I have been in her life since she was little and her half-siblings call me Mum.

Amy, Solihull

A I assume her half-siblings are your children, which is why they call you Mum. Your stepdaughter isn’t and she has a mother in

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