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Stepfamily Articles -
Stepfamily Articles
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 Bray and Kelly report the findings of their extensive research in a new
book, Step-Families: Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade.
They explain that they found three main types of step-families. They
discovered that step-families have their own Life Cycle, different from
"traditional families," and it takes several years for the family as a
whole to solidify. The first two years are marked by intense conflict.
The next two to three years are marked by relative peace. After that,
turmoil comes again as the children reach adolescence, but then matters
settle and the family, having worked to build itself into a real unit,
is able to weather the adolescent years without too much trouble.
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