Q. When someone from a blended family is benching, does Ves Zarrei include children from a spouses previous marriage? If not, should some other text be said or do the spouses children get omitted?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one with a blended family (both remarried spouses have children of their own) should recite; Horachaman hu yivarech es Ishti (or Ba’ali) ve’es zarenu, (May the merciful one bless my spouse and our children). This is correct since the one that raises someone’s child is considered like his parent.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a