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Should the step-parents of children who aren't biologically related to them have some legal right to visitation when a relationship ends?
Say, a man gets into a serious, long term relationship with a woman who has a baby. Then they break up seven years later. For that 7 year old child, that man is the only father he’s ever known, and the man badly wants to stay in the child’s life, but he has no legal rights to visitation. Should there be some laws that address that situation?
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