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My Life as a Blender or Surviving in a Stepfamily Print E-mail
Stepfamilyby 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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