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My Life as a Blender or Surviving in a Stepfamily |
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 by Nina Amir Lacey
Conscious Choice, February 2002
More
than half of all Americans who enter into marriage for the first time
end up divorced. Three quarters of those same people eventually
remarry, and about 65 percent of those remarriages involve children
from a prior marriage. Thus, more than half of all second marriages
taking place in our country create a new type of family: a stepfamily.
Estimating
the actual number of stepfamilies in our country today, however, is
difficult; the U.S. Census Bureau has not calculated them since the
early nineties. Still, census statistics on divorce, remarriage and
stepfamilies -- albeit old -- offer general insight into the number of
adults and children who call themselves part of a stepfamily:
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http://www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc1502/survivingstepfamily1502.html |
