Recently married what I thought was a kind man with same characteristics I value. Kindness, empathy, honesty. These are the things I have taught my 3 kids 19, 16 and 10. He has 2 children age 10 girl and 6 boy. Didnt know them well before the marriage but now have equal joint custody of them. They lie, manipulate and flat out disrespect their dad....and their mom. The six year old has fits of anger and does not listen. He Is in trouble at school with this as well. His mother told my husband he peed on a stufffed animal when he was mad at being asked to do his homework and threatened to jump out of the car on the way to meet the teacher at school. These kids come from a privalged home and are quite frankly....very spoiled. They are greedy, selfish, and mean to others. I am horrified by their disrepsect of adults. My husband did not see ANY of this until I began pointing out such things as the girl throwing a metal can point blank at her brother causing a gash exposing a bone. This was not an "accident" like she claimed . Or her crumpling her brothers homework or taking obscene pics of him to get him in trouble were not all "accidents." They both lie right to his face without conscience. It is so hard to watch. He is now starting to get mad at me for pointing out such things. To complicate things more, my son and step daughter are the same age and go to the same school. She is constantly lieing to get him in trouble at home, but recently shoved him at school and when he did the same back ran to a teacher to get him in trouble. My son is quiet, shy, at a new school and has in 6 years of school, never been in trouble. The behavior of my step kids make me question the man I married....who he is to have allowed these kids to be raised with such poor character. There are many years ahead and am already overwhelmed.