stepchild , also: step-kid informal , also: stepkid informal

No longer a stepchild: how the management field can come into its own.

Medicaid has always been a stepchild of the nation's health care system.

But what if the biological mother of the stepchild is dead?

"The blues has always been the stepchild in the family of American music."

Europe was no longer the golf stepchild of the world.

The Times, while older, was long regarded as a sort of stepchild.

Television has always been considered a stepchild of the entertainment business.

"It's not called the stepchild of the court system for nothing.

He has become the evil stepchild of the ski team.

"Natural gas prices have been the stepchild of this California crisis."

Historically, teachers' professional development has been the stepchild of school reform.

"We do at times feel like the stepchild," said Jordan.

"But treating the book company like a stepchild- "Not exactly.

The station is something of a stepchild among local relics.

But the low-end Model 30 seems very much a stepchild.

Loggia has two children of his own and a stepchild.

The most common form of adoption is adopting a stepchild.

His court was the unwanted stepchild of the judicial system.

Smell is the stepchild of the senses, the one that many think they could do without.

Until very recently here, opera has been treated as a cultural stepchild.

It seems that the neglected stepchild is starting to get some attention, after all.

The film business is fast becoming a stepchild at Kodak.

Cable, once a media planner's stepchild, has become part of the family.

Cities are the law's stepchild, unable to do much without the cooperation of state or federal government.

Well, the stepchild may not be too happy now.