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Blended families: Drama when step-kids, parents don’t get along

Blended families

There was drama not long ago in Nairobi’s Githurai area when fed up neigbours ganged up and stormed a woman’s house, read her the Riot Act and warned her against mistreating her stepchildren. Apparently, the woman had developed the habit of unnecessarily beating up her two stepdaughters, and subjecting them to ‘hard labour’ as punishment whenever they errored.

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