If you have step children, is that how you introduce them to others?

“This is my daughter Jane, and my step-daughter, Mary.”

I never did. Why would anyone do that? I would think it would make the kid feel…singled out and rather excluded.

Once we went to a family reunion. They had a paper thing running around the room that showed the tree. If a kid was adopted, they had a special kind of line for that. It implied “This isn’t REAL family.” It hurt my oldest daughter so much (she was 10 at the time) that she didn’t go to another one until she was about 30.