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Growing Up in Stepfamilies Print E-mail
Studies of how stepfamily life affects children typically suffer from the limited time frame available for data collection for virtually all researchers: Neither the graduate student seeking a professional degree nor the career researcher requiring funding can afford to wait the 30 or so years needed for their subjects to be solidly established in adulthood before confidently assessing the longterm impact of family transitions in childhood.

Correlations between family structures/processes and child outcome variables, although suggestive, may well show themselves over time to be neither enduring nor definitively causal.

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