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Why do they call it a half brother or sister?

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Your half-brothers and half-sisters (half-siblings) are called half because instead of having the same mother and the same father as you, you have only one parent in common. Thus, you have half the common parentage that full siblings have.

Half-siblings have the same father and different mothers, or the saem mother and different fathers.

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