The stepfamily handbook from dating, to getting serious, to forming a "blended family"
"The Stepfamily Handbook provides these essentials: Step-by-step guidance for how to introduce children to a dating partner and pace positive engagement between partners and kids, and kids with kids. A roadmap through the "Five Stepfamily Challenges" that will likely surface shortly after you begin...
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Kirkland, Washington :
CMC Publishers,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Dating (again)?
- Are you cut out for a stepfamily?
- When is a relationship "kid-worthy"?
- Moving forward? Strengthen your relationship skills!
- Introducing children and a new partner: a step at a time saves nine
- Children's responses to a parent repartnering
- Co-parents as allies, not enemies
- When a child's parent has died
- If your new relationship began with an affair
- How stepfamilies differ from first-time families
- First stepfamily challenge: children struggle with losses, loyalty binds and change
- Second stepfamily challenge: Insider/outsider positions
- The third stepfamily challenge: divided over discipline
- Fourth stepfamily challenge: co-parents are part of the stepfamily
- Fifth stepfamily challenge: culture that respects differences
- A new wrinkle: gray recouplers
- Coming apart with kids on board: Thoughtful endings for stepfamilies
- Stepfamilies over time.
