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– General Information –
Description: This article discusses the challenges children ages 9-12 typically face when parents separate or divorce.
Description: This website provides a list of helpful tips for balancing work and family.
Characteristics of Cohabiting Families. 
Description: The purpose of this brief is to highlight recent trends in cohabitation and to describe characteristics of parents who enter into cohabiting relationships. Key differences between households with two biological parents and those with step parents are also discussed.
Check Ingredients Before Blending
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This publication is aimed at providing tips and suggestions for blended families, a term used when previously separated parents remarry and combine families.
Description: Cofamilies.com is a free online tool for helping coparents, step-parents and blended families coordinate parenting time and schedules for doctor's appointments, extra curricular activities and other events.
Parenthood in America: Step Families
Author: Bliss, Beverly
Description: This article discusses many topics regarding stepfamilies, including divorce statistics, how to get along, how to blend a family, and a list of resources about step families.
Description: This article provides information and tips on how to help children adjust to stepparents.
The Challenges in Step or Blended Families
Description: This article discusses the challenges in step and blended families.
– Professional Development –
Characteristics of Cohabiting Families.
Description: The purpose of this brief is to highlight recent trends in cohabitation and to describe characteristics of parents who enter into cohabiting relationships. Key differences between households with two biological parents and those with step parents are also discussed.
– Programming Resource –
Helping Children Grow: Becoming a Stepparent
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on becoming a stepparent.
National Stepfamily Resource Center
Description: The National Stepfamily Resource Center’s primary objective is to serve as a clearinghouse of information, resources, and support for stepfamily members and the professionals who work with them.
Description: This resource discusses the challenges of and how to cope with divorce, remarriage, and blending of families.
Resources for Working with Stepfamilies
Description: This website provides links and information to many stepfamily resources.
Strengthening Healthy Families
Author: Gruber, Patricia
Description: This article discusses ideas on how to strengthen families and activities that can be used.
– Research –
Characteristics of Blended Families: A review of Three Marriage Enrichment Programs
Description: This article reviews the current literature on the specific aspects of blended families.
Parenthood in America: Step Families
Author: Bliss, Beverly
Description: This article discusses many topics regarding stepfamilies, including divorce statistics, how to get along, how to blend a family, and a list of resources about step families.
Description: This article discusses current research on the educational outcomes of children in stable blended families and children of traditional nuclear families.