Do remember that she is now the proud new owner of a relationship with his mother! Tell yourself how much fun she's going to have dealing with that!

It's a new generation, and blended families are the new norm. This realization struck me yesterday, when my stepdaughter, a third-grader, relayed the details of her day at school.

What do you do when you really like your stepparent, but you don't want your mom or dad to know? That's the tricky situation teen sisters Emily an...

Stepmoms, do you find yourself up against a mental block when it comes to cleaning up after your stepchild or nurturing her?

In over ten years of working with stepmothers, I've rarely met one who would fall under the definition of an "evil stepmother".

Bringing two families together after remarriage isn't always easy, but finding happiness and keeping the peace at home can absolutely be done. (Just t...

Have you ever felt the anxiety of anticipating your step kids' arrival? Did you secretly feel as if you don't want them to come?

My mother and I grew up in divorced homes, and we endured the experience of having both stepmothers and stepfathers. This was, of course, a situation neither of us desired as children, and it caused us both to deal with a great amount of adjustment as adults.

Both divorced moms and stepmoms deserve to be fully honored for our contributions and all that we bring to our families.

To stepmother Judy Osborne, Mother’s Day is “the hardest day of the year.” Osborne, a Brookline, Mass.-based marriage and family therapist, ...

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?

When I got married, at twenty-three, I became a stepmother to a seven-year-old-boy. I'd known Jonah since he was four, and his parents had divorced wh...

If there was a job posting for a stepmother it might read: Woman needed to raise someone's else's kids who will fight you and test you and might ev...

A dear friend in Wisconsin called me the other day. She was distraught. Turns out, her ex-husband had eloped over the weekend to marry the "other woman"...

Old habits die hard, but when it comes to Valentine's Day traditions you had with a former spouse, die they must. When you're in a subsequent marriag...

Call them blended families, bonus families or para-kin. Just don't call them stepfamilies. The term -- seared into our consciousness through fairy tal...

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...