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Ever wonder how stepmothers in Japan feel? Or what rights stepfamilies have across Europe? Not surprisingly, it's complicated. Despite efforts by scholars around the globe, the international portrait ...

What do you do when your social battery runs out? Do you push on and force yourself to continue to socialize, or do you bow out and go home? It gets more complicated with you’re a teen with your ...

It’s funny how some families blend so naturally while others seem to never quite fit together. So, what would you do if your stepfamily expected you to see them as your own, even though you never ...

Adult children are less likely to assist an aging stepparent, studies show. A growing “step gap” in senior care worries experts. By Paula Span The encounter happened years ago, but Beverly K. Brandt ...

It's a reality today that about half of all marriages end in divorce and three out of every four people who get divorced will marry again. This means millions of new stepfamilies are formed each year.

When I first became a stepmom, I was a 26-year-old, childless bachelorette who accidentally fell in love with a single dad with three kids. I say accidentally because marrying a man with kids was not ...

According to the U.S. Census: • Less than 25% of families are traditional nuclear families. "Years ago a friend of mine from college was complaining about her new husband's children, her stepchildren, ...

Cameron Normand is CEO of Stepfamily Solutions, where she hosts The Stepmom Diaries podcast and oversees Stepfamily Magazine, the Stepmom Summit, and more. A Certified stepfamily coach, Cameron has ...