Stepfamily
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– General Information –
Description: This article discusses the challenges children ages 9-12 typically face when parents separate or divorce.
Advice for Stepparents When Their Spouse is Being Deployed
Description: Provides tips for dealing with issues that arise when the military deployment of a spouse creates challenges related to the legal relationship between stepparents and stepchildren.
Break the Cycle ( formerly Stepfamily in Formation) 
Description: This is a non-profit educational divorce-prevention site. It provides over 700 Web pages of practical information and resources for co-parents (bioparents and stepparents) and supporters. These articles and worksheets come from years' professional research on how to avoid and resolve most divorced-family and stepfamily problems, grow relationships together, and guard your kids and unborn descendents against major heartache, losses, and health problems.
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.
Foundations for a Successful Stepfamily
Author: Leigh, Sharon (1 more by this author); Maridith Jackson; Janet A. Clark
Description: This fact sheet highlights several important topics that you should discuss with your partner before and after marriage, and provides suggestions for creating a successful stepfamily.
Help Children Adjust to Stepfamily Life
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: A file that provides parents ways to avoid having arguments in front of children and providing their children with a positive environment.
Managing Former Spouse Relationships
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This publication is a guide to post spousal relationships. It directs you how to apply yourself to the relationship.
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This article describes the difficulties and conflicts involved with stepfamilies and steps to take to embrace the differences.
Stepfamilies: Strengthening Your Couple Relationship
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This publication guides you through the ups and downs of your relationship.
The Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education
Description: CMFCE is an interest group whose members are convinced that family breakdown can be reduced through education and information. America's divorce rate has held steady at an unacceptable 50% for thirty years. That's for first marriages. The divorce rate is even higher for second and subsequent marriages -- which show we don't learn from our mistakes. We learn through education.
– Other Resources –
The Stepfamily Association of America
Description: The Stepfamily Association of America is a national organization dedicated to providing support and guidance to families with children from previous relationships.
– Professional Development –
Advice for Stepparents When Their Spouse is Being Deployed
Description: Provides tips for dealing with issues that arise when the military deployment of a spouse creates challenges related to the legal relationship between stepparents and stepchildren.
Building Strong Marriages: Resources for and Lessons Learned from Working with Stepfamilies
Author: Adler-Baeder, Francesca (1 more by this author); Brian Higginbotham, Ted Futris
Description: This webinar is on what it takes to establish relationship and marriage enrichment as well as parenting education programs that adequately meet the unique needs of stepfamilies. The research is clear that stepfamilies experience unique family developmental patterns and face unique issues that are related to healthy marital and family functioning. This 90 minute session presents the latest research-based program resources and teaching strategies.
Description: This 6-session research-based educational curriculum written by Dr. Francesca Adler-Baeder is designed for remarried or partnering couples and their children. It focuses on building couple and family strengths while addressing the unique needs and issues that face couples in stepfamilies.
– Programming Resource –
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet deals with the kinds of conflicts occur with the entrance of a stepmother into a family.
Families and Divorce: A Program for Professionals Working With Families
Author: Leon, Kim; University of Missouri Extension
Description: The Families and Divorce curriculum was developed by University of Missouri Extension to provide training for Missouri teachers and other professionals who work with children. The curriculum explores the effects of divorce on children and how those working with children can support them through the process of a parental divorce. The program is primarily intended for preschool and elementary teachers, childcare providers and administrators, school personnel, and others who work with children under the age of 12. It has also been used with other audiences, such as secondary Family and Consumer Science teachers and 4-H staff members.
Families Tapestries Strengthening Family Bonds: Before You Say "I Do" Again
Description: From the Ohio State University Extension, this fact sheet offers information on the characteristics of successful remarried families.
Foundation for a Successful Stepfamily
Description: Fact sheet on ways to build strong stepfamilies.
Helping Children Grow: Becoming a Stepparent
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on becoming a stepparent.
Let Children Choose Stepparent Names
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This publication suggests that children should be the ones to decide whether to call the stepparent mom or dad, or by another name.
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This publication describes the difficulty of adding a new parent to a family when the children are used to their old rules/ways of doing things.
Resources for Working with Stepfamilies
Description: This website provides links and information to many stepfamily resources.
Description: This 6-session research-based educational curriculum written by Dr. Francesca Adler-Baeder is designed for remarried or partnering couples and their children. It focuses on building couple and family strengths while addressing the unique needs and issues that face couples in stepfamilies.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies
Author: Olsen, Charlotte (4 more by this author)
Description: Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies, an Extension program developed by Kansas State University, is designed to assist, not only stepfamilies with children under the age of 18 years old, but professionals, extended family members, and friends who want to understand how to be supportive of successful stepfamily living within their communities. The program consists of a six-lesson home study course, a 35-minute video, an audiotape, single page fact sheets, a teaching guide, a training manual, and evaluation instruments. These resources can be used in combination with each other or individually as the situation warrants.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies Financial and Legal Issues
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: This is one of three publications that are optional reading for the home-study course Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies for Grandparents
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: This is one of three publications that are optional reading for the home-study course Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies for Parents
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: This is one of three publications that are optional reading for the home-study course Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies-- Lesson 6: Working with Others
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: There are many people outside your stepfamily that can provide support, comfort and joy. The number and variety of individuals may be different from your first family, but they are just as important. Grandparents, friends, former spouses, current and former in-laws, teachers, clergy and leaders of children's activities may all be part of stepfamily life.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies--Lesson 1: Taking Time to Think about My Stepfamily
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: This first lesson in the Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies home study series helps you think about the myths and realities of living in a stepfamily.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies--Lesson 2: Building a Strong Couple Relationship
Description: This second lesson in the Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies home study series helps you learn some of the reasons that a strong couple relationship strengthens a stepfamily.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies--Lesson 3: Building Step Relationships
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: This third lesson in the Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies home study series helps you understand and learn how to deal with some of the built-in challenges in step family relationships.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies--Lesson 4: Understanding a Child's Realities
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: Children look at the world differently than adults. Much of what they understand depends on their age. At each age, there are certain feelings and reactions which children will experience. Being a part of a stepfamily can be very exciting, but scary too. Because of all the changes, children need support to handle the stresses of their new situation.
Stepping Stones for Stepfamilies--Lesson 5: Understanding Financial and Legal Matters
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author)
Description: This lesson is designed to provide general information for Florida stepfamilies. However, the specific facts of any situation will influence the way in which laws and regulations apply. It will also influence the way in which families respond and function. The financial and legal issues that stepfamilies face can be quite complex.
– Research –
Marriage education for stepcouples
Description: From a review of the literature, this article presents prevalent issues and factors associated with healthy couple functioning in stepfamilies for marriage educators and practitioners.