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Dealing With The Ex-Wife: 7 Steps To Step-Mom Success

Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce

Story courtesy of Babble By C.J. Parker You've finally found the One. He's kind, loving and comes with some delightful freckle-faced baggage: a darl...

The Holidays: How Stepfamilies Can Be Happier

Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Wednesday Martin

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.

Let's Stop Expecting Sandra Bullock to Be a Stepmartyr

Wednesday Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Wednesday Martin

Many women suffer from what I call Stepmartyr Syndrome--embracing the notion that they are going to make it all better for everyone, whatever the cost to them personally.

Not So Brady: 4 Rules For Staying Together When You Remarry With Kids

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Therese Borchard

It's worth investigating what makes a real Brady family tick because approximately half of all marriages in the US each year are remarriages for one or both partners and 65 percent of them involve children from a previous relationships.

Can a Stepmother Like Sandra Bullock Be a Better Parent than a Biological Mom Who's a Porn Star?

Jill Brooke | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jill Brooke

Rarely when fathers seek full custody of a child are the facts so stacked against the mother as in the case between "Monster Garage" star Jesse James and his ex-wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder.

Stepfamilies To Uncle Sam: Learn To Count!

Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Wednesday Martin

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.

When And Why You Shouldn't Put The Kids First

Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Wednesday Martin

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.

Is Evil Born -- Or Made?

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Diane Dimond

How does a young boy pick up a 22 caliber single action rifle and pump four bullets into his own father and then six more bullets into a man who rents a room in the family home?