… Stepfamilies are families emerging out of hope. Remarried parents or stepparents are
different than parents in a first-marriage family, and growing up in stepfamily can be more …

… Over a third of the studies published—the most on any topic—dealt with the effects on
children of living with a remarried or cohabiting stepparent. Many were national studies (eg, …

… selecting studies to be included in the review: (a) the main focus of the study was the
effects on children of parental remarriage, having a stepparent, or living in a stepfamily; (b) the …

… remarried couples with biological children only, remarried couples with stepchildren only, and
remarried … significantly across family types, but husbands in remarried families contributed …

… Most youth acquire a stepparent after living with a single parent or experiencing the … between
youth outcomes in stepparent families and two-biological-parent families difficult to interpret…

… Perhaps the stigma that remains associated with divorce, much less “stepparent” and “… ,
remarriage creates a very different kind of family: a stepfamily. The result is a family with a very …

… Family decade reviews began addressing remarriage and stepfamilies in 1980 when
these topics were included as a “nontraditional family … “remarriage,” “stepfamily,” and “stepparent” …

… Parenting in remarried families is presented next, including discussions of parenting of
custodial and noncustodial parents and stepparents and the interdependence between marital …

… This case exemplifies how extended family members such as a stepparent’s parent-in-law
(usually mother-in-law) or stepchild(ren)’s grandparents tend to increase the conflict of the …

… remarried or cohabiting stepfamily as a parent or stepparent at some time, and 40% of all
families … These include the high divorce and remarriage rates and the increase in numbers of …