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This article describes a strategy for developing relationships with stepchildren that, with time, can be positive and fulfilling. The secret is go slow on entering the disciplinarian role and to be supportive of the parenting of the biological parent until trust is earned and you can parent as a team.

This article describes the challenges and solutions of blending children from two families into a stepfamily relationship.

How successful do you think this couple will be in raising children? They don't understand each other or cooperate well when it comes to parenting. One parent has formed an alliance with the children while the other has only a marginal relationship. Finally, parenting in the family is frequently subject to the interference of an outsider.

Obviously, this situation is not good. However, this is the starting point for a typical stepfamily. They are at the beginning of a long and a ...

Should parents stay together in an unhappy, conflict-ridden marriage for the sake of the children? Conflict is the issue - not divorce - whether it is in intact families or following divorce. Children from high conflict families have more adjustment problems than children from divorced families or low conflict, non-divorced families.

Divorce improves the adjustment of children removed from contentious marriages. In unhappy marriages if conflict is not obvious to the child ...

- In the United States, the number of divorces each year is almost half the number of new marriages and one million children experience their parents' divorce. It is projected that between 50 percent and 60 percent of children born in the 1990s will live, at some point, in single parent families.