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Blending Families With Children, by Carle F. O'Neil, M.A., M.S.W., and Waln K. Brown, Ph.D., 4,139 words, 17 pages.  The nature of the American family has changed significantly.  A century ago, divorce was uncommon.  Families were usually only "broken" by death from accident or disease.  Children went to orphanages, were adopted or taken into families of surviving relatives.  There were problems and unhappiness in such outcomes, but the economic realities of the time required that individuals in thrown-together families make it together because other alternatives were few or none.  Today, however, more than half of all first-time marriages with children end in divorce.  Most divorcees than go on to second or third unions with new partners, bringing together children of previous marriages and forming "blended" families.  Such mergers can be the most challenging of all family arrangements.  Not only does the new marital couple have to establish a harmonious relationship with each other, but each also must build relations with his or her stepchildren.


 

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