41. The Special Problems Of Stepfamilies - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site The stepfamily has become a common type of household in many parts of the world. Yet, stepfamilies have unique problems. http://www.watchtower.org/e/19990301/article_01.htm

Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site Beliefs Future Medical ... Search STEPFAMILIES How They Can Succeed In this series: The Special Problems of Stepfamilies Stepfamilies Can Succeed Related topics: Enjoy Family Life Spend Time With Your Family! Single-Parent Families Can Succeed The Special Problems of Stepfamilies HAPPY STEPFAMILIES ARE POSSIBLE! HOW? The stepfamily has become a common type of household in many parts of the world. Yet, stepfamilies have unique problems. The most challenging is undoubtedly child rearing. However, as the two articles that follow will try to show, it is possible to rear children successfully in a stepfamily environment. TRADITIONALLY, STEPFATHERS AND STEPMOTHERS HAVE HAD A BAD PRESS. WHEN WE WERE children, many of us heard some version of the fairy tale of Cinderella, who suffered so much at the hands of her cruel stepmother. Children in Europe learn, too, the fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White's stepmother turns out to be a wicked witch! Do such fairy tales give an accurate view of stepfamilies? Are all stepparents really so bad? No. Most of them want only what is best for the children they inherit by marriage. But they do have to face some difficult problems inherent in stepfamily life. "You are not really

42. Bonus Families - Stepfamily Resources And Advice For Stepfamilies, Stepparents A Bonus Families is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting ex-etiquette and peaceful coexistence between divorced or separated http://www.bonusfamilies.com/

Bonus Families Home About Us Donate Contact ... Online Stores Ex-Etiquette Column Can't get along with your ex? Let Jann and Sharyl show you how. Yes, they are the ones you saw on the Oprah Winfrey Show . Together, they co-author the Ex-Etiquette column syndicated by McClatchy Tribune. Ask your paper to start running Ex-Etiquette if they aren't already! Read Their Column Learn More Bonus Books Ex-Etiquette for Parents: Good Behavior After Divorce or Separation Jann Blackstone-Ford, PsyD. Read an Excerpt AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','562','height','160','title','Welcome to Bonus Families','src','home','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','home' ); //end AC code What's a Bonusfamily? Why Bonus? Read More Popular Articles We Pay for Everything! Full Article Daughter is Jealous of Bonussibings Full Article Why Does My Bonuschild Lie? Full Article Latest News Tips for Him With Father's Day just around the corner, here are some tips for dads and bonusdads to help them get along. Find Out More Our Bonus Expert, Dr.Sophy, talks about what to do when an ex is mentally ill...

43. Winning Stepfamilies - Helping Blended Families Succeed Winning stepfamilies Helping Blended Families Succeed. http://www.winningstepfamilies.com/

Home Pattern of Success Initial Consultation Specialty Programs ... Contact Us Blended Family Problems? Let us help you. Are you having trouble: Resolving the disputes over parenting, money, privacy, vacation, responsibilities, boundaries, rituals, holidays, etc Dealing with the ways in which children act out and express their emotions Handling stepchild behaviors like disrespect, "acting out," and/or "favoritism Working through common stepchild discipline problems Resolving custody, visitation, and/or financial support issues Handling stepsibling relationship problems Dealing with Stepparent - stepchild rejections Working through loyalty conflicts Resolving parenting differences over values and practices Working through conflicts over stepparent responsibilities and authority Dealing with feelings of being used, ignored, unappreciated, and unsupported Handling stepparent and/or ex-spouse jealousy issues Ending hostility and/or aggression among co-parents Resolving excessive guilt related to prior divorce or to re/marriage Let us help you with no cost or obligation: FREE HELP FOR YOU R BLENDED FAMILY Get free help for your blended family. Learn how to survive the weekend, eliminate the negative in your relationship and how to create a stepfamily that works. This advice and the information on this site may help you eliminate some of the problems you may be having.

44. Step-families Stepfamilies are very common nowadays. In fact it s been calculated that 18 million people in the UK are part of a step-family in some way or another. http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sex_relationships/facts/stepfamilies.htm

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45. Stepfamilies Divorce Things can get complicated when dealing with divorce and blended families. Get advice on how to smooth tough life transitions here. http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-psbonusfam

46. Stepfamilies, Stepparents And Stepchildren Information stepfamilies are families composed of parents or children from previous marriages or relationships that require just as much compassion and communication as http://www.selfgrowth.com/stepf.html

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47. SAGE - The Natural Home For Authors, Editors And Societies - Brave New Stepfamil Brave New stepfamilies is an excellent treatise on today s families. Brave New stepfamilies maps the changing landscape of American stepfamilies, http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?currTree=Subjects&level1=D00&prodId=Boo

48. Understanding Stepfamilies: Family Life Education For Community Professionals, T Understanding stepfamilies Information and Strategies is a 4hour research update seminar for professionals who work with children and families. http://www.joe.org/joe/2002december/iw2.shtml

December 2002 Volume 40 Number 6 Understanding Stepfamilies: Family Life Education for Community Professionals Francesca Adler-Baeder Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Human Development and Family Studies Auburn University Auburn, Alabama Internet Address: adlerfr@auburn.edu Introduction Extension educators can broaden efforts to positively affect family's experiences and children's development by delivering programs on relevant and recent family life research to community professionals. This represents a "second tier" of family life education and fits within an ecological perspective on human development. This theoretical framework recognizes multi-level environmental influences on human development. Specifically, community professionals represent factors outside the family that can affect family functioning. "Understanding Stepfamilies: Information and Strategies" is a 4-hour research update seminar for professionals who work with children and families. Responses to the program indicate receptiveness to similar Extension programs targeting professionals. Rationale for the Program on Stepfamilies Rationale for developing a professional seminar on stepfamilies centers on the following.

49. Stepfamilies - Parenting Roles, The Stepparent Role, Clarity Of The Stepparent R stepfamilies consist of at least one minor child who is living with a biological parent and that parent s spouse—a stepparent—who is not the child s other http://family.jrank.org/pages/1639/Stepfamilies.html

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50. Active Parenting For Stepfamilies - More Info When a stepfamily is formed, everyone needs to learn new rules Mom and Dad need to learn how to work together as a team. Children and teens must adapt to http://www.activeparenting.com/xapsf.htm

Active Parenting for Stepfamilies by Michael H. Popkin, PhD, and Elizabeth Einstein, MA, LMFT a new Getting married is the easy part! When a stepfamily is formed, everyone needs to learn new rules: Mom and Dad need to learn how to work together as a team. Children and teens must adapt to changes. Everyone needs to build good relationships with new family members. Active Parenting for Stepfamilies is here to help! Use this new video-based discussion program to help couples work together to raise children in the challenging stepfamily environment. With this program, you will also teach how to use powerful communication and negotiation skills to strengthen marriage and family. Designed both for parents and stepparents, Active Parenting for Stepfamilies is also useful for foster parents, adoptive parents, single parents and others affected by loss and change. The program combines the knowledge of Active Parenting author Michael Popkin and stepfamily expert Elizabeth Einstein With new video scenes addressing stepfamily issues.

51. In The Mix - Divorce And Stepfamilies: Breaking Apart, Coming Together We also meet an interracial stepfamily from Long Island, New York to see see how four teens and their parents have successfully worked through many http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_divorce.html

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52. Stepfamily.tips.html Tips for stepfamilies by Emily John Visher founders of Do not expect stepfamilies to be like first marriage families. There are characteristics http://www.smartmarriages.com/stepfamily.tips.html

Smart Marriages Home Conference Find a Marriage Class Become a Marriage Educator ... Diane Sollee, Director Search Site Keywords ...is required Search ... or, you can also Search Listserv Archives Search Directory Stepfamily Association of America 1. Start out in your own new place if at all possible. This will make for many fewer "turf" squabbles, hurt feelings, and more ability to rid yourselves of the ghosts of the past. 2. Do not expect stepfamilies to be like first marriage families. There are characteristics that make them different, that bring their own challenges and rewards. For example, they are formed after relationship changes and losses; adults and children already have ideas about how family life should run; they are at different places in their life (e.g.a man with three children may marry a woman who has never had any children); parent-child relationships existed before the couple relationship was formed. There is a parent in another household and many children go between their two homes. These characteristics can add a richness and diversity to the family and give the couple time on their own when children are in their other household.

53. Counseling For Stepfamilies Located in New York City, Stepfamily Dynamics provides a complete range of stepfamily counseling and support services for families, specializing in single http://www.stepfamilydynamics.com/

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54. Step Families We have already become a nation of steprelating individuals. However, most graduate schools of psychiatry, psychology, and social work provide no specific http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Bliss/Bliss.html

Home Topics Authors Work Groups ... Search Step Families Beverly Bliss, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, Madison, WI Statistics The Statistics Are Staggering: One out of two marriages ends in divorce. Sixty percent of second marriages fail, according to the U.S. Census Bureau 66% of marriages and living together situations end in break up, when children are actively involved, according to Stepfamily Foundation statistics. It is predicted that 50% of children in the US will go through a divorce before they are 18. Approximately half of all Americans are currently involved in some form of step relationship. By the year 2000, according to the Census Bureau, more Americans will be living in step families than in nuclear families. In his 1994 study, "The Changing Character of Stepfamilies," Professor of Sociology Larry L. Bumpass of the University of Wisconsin challenges the common perception that the stepfamily is defined by marriage. His research states that: About half of the 60 million children under the age of thirteen in this country are currently living with one biological parent and that parent's current partner. Nearly half of all women, not just mothers, are likely to live in a stepfamily relationship, when we include living-together families in our definition of the stepfamily.

55. Stepfamily Stepfamily information and resources for step families and blended families. http://www.stepfamily.org/

We can help and we do! Take the New Quick Test Now What We Provide Articles and Resources Phone Counseling Statistics Bookstore Stepfamily Foundation Certification Seminar Start Your Own Support Group Endorsements Counselors / Coaches in your Area Message board Article of the Month Lofas Bio Contact Us Links ANNOUNCEMENT ! Join us for Discussion, solutions and information specifically for STEPMOTHERS! Location: Stepfamily Foundation Headquarters, 333 West End Avenue (at W 76th), Suite 11C , New York, NY Hurry! Slots are filling up quickly, and group sizes are small. Monday June 2nd, 7:00-9:00pm Successful Women and the Challenge of his/her Children. Learn the Rules for Success from dating to remarriage with children. $65.00 In Advance Call to reserve 212-877-3244 Phone: Fax: Email: stepfamily@aol.com Our mission is to assist you to make the family, as it is now, function well. We have created a successful management system for the stepfamily. the unacknowledged majority.

56. The Stepfamily Life: A Weekly Column By A Real-Life Stepmom A weekly online column devoted to exploring stepfamily life. http://www.thestepfamilylife.com/

Column Classic Stepfamilies: We're Here to Stay by Dawn Miller (January 7, 2006) Stepfamilies represent a large chunk of the population. More people today in the United States live in stepfamilies, than in nuclear families. One in three Americans today is part of a stepfamily – we are stepparents, stepchildren, stepsiblings, and more. In one decade, from 1980 to 1990, the number of stepfamilies increased by more than 35%. We have a positive view of marriage, but our marriages are under stress from the demands of stepfamily life. Although one or both spouses in a stepfamily is previously married (and subsequently widowed or divorced), we continue to believe that marriage is worth emotionally investing in. Seventy-five per cent of the people divorcing today will eventually remarry and 43% of all marriages today are remarriages. The first four years in a stepfamily can be especially conflict-prone. Researchers point out that among ethnic groups, such as Asian-Americans and whites, where stepfamily life is less institutionalized and less “the norm,” marriages that form stepfamilies experience significant stress. more Add us to your favorite bookmark sites: Column Update Looking for the Latest from Dawn?

57. Stepfamily - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Traditionally, a stepfamily is the family one acquires when a parent enters a new marriage, whether the parent was widowed or divorced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepfamily

Stepfamily From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search "Stepmom" redirects here. For the film of the same name, see Stepmom (film) Traditionally, a stepfamily is the family one acquires when a parent enters a new marriage , whether the parent was widowed or divorced . For example, if one's mother dies and one's father marries another woman, the new woman is one's stepmother. The counseling slogan "Stepfamilies are born out of loss" applies to such a case. In modern stepfamilies, there is recognition that the biological parents may never have married. Unless one biological parent of a stepchild is deceased, typical nuclear stepfamilies do not live in one house, consisting of three or more parents, biological and otherwise. It is also possible, in a less strict sense, that the new mate chooses the role of full- or part-time caregiver without marital commitment. However, it is generally understood that after a "child" reaches adulthood, a parent's subsequent marriage cannot create a stepparent relationship without the adult "child's" express written consent. In a simple stepfamily, only one stepparent has a prior child or children. Usually this is thought of in terms of minors, but the children of a stepfamily can also be adults. Stepbrothers and stepsisters exist in a

58. Blended Family Resource Center : Welcome located in Redmond, Washington. Specialized in helping blended and step families with advice and counselling. http://www.blendedfamilyresourcecenter.com/

Home About Us Case Vignettes Tell Us Your Story ... Contact Us Merrie Day, Ph.D., LMFT: Kenneth Drummy, LCSW: Phone: 425-895-7295 or 425-747-0155 Office Address: nd Ave N.E. Kirkland, WA. 98033

59. Stepfamily Success Depends On Ingredients If Tolstoy were alive today, he might have penned his famous line like this Happy families are all alike—and every stepfamily is complex in its own way. http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec05/stepfamily.html

Volume 36, No. 11 December 2005 Containing conflict in divorce battles Parenting plans with kids in mind A sea change in family values? The 21st Century American family "When the kids aren’t happy, they’ll say things like, "I don’t like your new husband—he’s mean to me." That creates conflict in the marriage. In a first- marriage family, if a kid says, "I don’t like my dad,' the mom says, "So?'" James H. Bray Baylor College of Medicine Stepfamily success depends on ingredients One in three Americans is part of a stepfamily, each with its own flavor. How can psychologists help them thrive? By Tori DeAngelis Print version: page 58 If Tolstoy were alive today, he might have penned his famous line like this: Happy families are all alike—and every stepfamily is complex in its own way. Take one example. If a stepparent is frequently battling his former spouse, research shows that his children suffer. But if he is close with his ex-partner, his new spouse may feel anxious and insecure. On top of this, say experts, many children don’t view their step-parents as "real parents" for the first few years—if ever—and parents in second marriages may treat their biological children differently from their stepchildren. "Stepparents once were viewed as ‘replacing’ biological parents, thus recreating a two-parent family," notes University of Virginia (UVA) psychology professor Robert E. Emery, PhD, author of "The Truth about Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive" (Viking/Penguin, 2004). "Economically, there may be some truth to this, but psychologically, that is not the reality. Remarriage and stepparenting are new, tricky transitions for children, the stepparent and the biological parents."

60. About Us She not only specializes in the Stepfamily, but in helping people work through depression, anxiety, trauma, family problems, couples problems and http://www.stepfamilycenter.com/aboutus.html

Susan M. Davis Havi Wolfson About the Logo This wonderful logo that so accurately depicts the Stepfamily was designed by Mr. Andrew Bayroff of Thumbnail Studio . Please click here to see a detailed description of the logo. MISSION STATEMENT To provide support, education and understanding of the Stepfamily to all members of a Stepfamily and for all people about to enter Stepfamily life. To advocate for the Stepfamily and the need for all professionals who come in contact with Stepfamilies to better understand their dynamic and the issues unique to this population for all members affected by Stepfamily life - the parents, children, aunts, uncles and grandparents. Privacy letter Legal notice Bibliography

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