My husband and I are part of the fastest-growing demographic in the U.S. -- the blended family.I constantly get asked: How do you do it? And is it worth it?
Posted 12.16.2011
Britney Spears is engaged to her former manager Jason Trawick, the couple confirmed Friday. Spears has two children from her previous marriage to ...
Posted 11.18.2011
Demi Moore was long considered a celebrity role model for helming a successful blended family with ex-husband Bruce Willis, their three children and c...
Linda Lipshutz, MS, ACSW | Posted 11.30.2011
Ironically, our children are often more realistic about the challenges facing the remarriage than we are.
Diana Carbajal Mejia | Posted 11.10.2011
In our blended family household of yours, mine and ours, this year back-to-school takes on a new meaning, since this year, we are changing our custody arrangement.
Karen Buscemi | Posted 05.25.2011
Attempting to develop a close relationship with your ex-spouse is not something that's often recommended. However, if you and the ex have to co-parent...
nytimes.com | Penelope Green | Posted 05.25.2011
The old, Brady Bunch stepfamily model -- the so-called "blended family" -- has long been out of favor. Indeed, the term is almost universally loathed ...
Kristin Tennant | Posted 05.25.2011
If there's one thing you can count on after a divorce, it's lower expectations.
Strollerderby | Posted 05.25.2011
Although we had gone to school together from 1980 to 1987, I hadn't laid eyes on Caroline for nearly a decade. That is before I randomly bumped into h...
Posted 05.25.2011
Story courtesy of The Survivor's Club More American families experience divorce now than ever before in history. Because nearly 40 percent of marria...
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The stepmother is probably the least-defined role in the contemporary family structure: She is a parent, yet not the parent. A caregiver but not alway...
Posted 05.25.2011
Story courtesy of Babble By Lily Burana I got tears in my eyes the first time I stood back-to-back with my elder stepson and realized he had grown t...
Posted 05.25.2011
Story courtesy of Babble By Kevin Keck I am down in my workshop standing amongst tools that date back to my great-grandfather. Most of the tools are...
Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011
Stepfamilies often experience extraordinary stress as the holidays--with their pressure cooker of "family" expectations--get underway. So, let go of the Three Big Myths of Stepfamily life.
Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011
We're hearing a lot about the new U.S. Census these days and many might wonder what, precisely, is at stake. For stepfamilies, the answer is: quite a bit.
Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011
Shunting the husband/wife relationship to the back burner whenever the stepchildren are around is, it turns out, a recipe for marital and step-family disaster.
Christine Bronstein | Posted 05.22.2012