Are you part of a blended family?
Blended Families are the new norm in America and frankly all over the world. With divorce rates rising globally, blended families proliferate and the challenges that come from taking separate entities or families and blending them together in a harmonious way is what this section of this divorce blog is all about. Indeed, on several popular divorce blogs on the Internet the section BLENDED FAMILIES is one of the most populated with both articles and readers. On Twitter there is even a hashtag for blended families.
Blended families are increasing all over the country and world as people divorce, remarry and pull their children along for the ride. In the US, blended families account for about 18 percent of families with children according to the Census Bureau: Overall, 16 percent of children lived with a stepparent, stepsibling or half sibling. Thirteen …
Read moreStep Families and Blended Families Have Special Challenges to Overcome
Blended Family Challenges: Should a stepdad feel guilty about resenting having to support his step kids? So, you are in a blended family and having a ton of “blended family challenges.” For example, You have married a woman who had kids with another man. You married her knowing full well that the kids were a …
(# Step Kids Ruining Marriage) What can you do when your stepkids are trying to destroy your marriage? In this post I will discuss (# Step Kids Ruining Marriage) the issue of the evil step kids. It happens. Sometimes, the step kids are just evil. There is no other way to put it. They are …
Something is icky about this notion, I think. But maybe I am being too prudish, who knows?