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Importance Of Stepfamilies

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Personally I am quite worried by the limited support and materials available to helping step-marriages? I mean in a world where there is consistency in the rise of the numbers of stepfamilies, one would expect a lot of alliances involving religious and non-religious bodies towards helping these peculiar family units? The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) pointed out that nearly one in every ten dependent children live in a stepfamily? The ONS went further to clarify that stepfamilies are couple families where there is at least one stepchild in the household. Under this environment, it may be the natural children of the couple as well as child (ren) from previous relationships. In other words stepfamilies are created when one individual …show more content…

Where a couple come together from previous marital experiences; either or both parties bring along precious child (ren) from previous relationships; and/or experiences in forms of emotional trauma, instabilities, doubts, insecurities, financial troubles, heartaches, etc. All of these are critical to the relationship. Hence it is highly advisable to seek a premarital counselling, advisory and practical help from experts or spiritual counsellors. The issues involved in stepfamilies can be complex and unique; one needs to approach this with some level of skills that can only be earned from experience or an in-depth study or analysis of stepfamilies. There’s a need to get some level of guidance and counselling prior to …show more content…

The couple talked about this afterwards yet for the sake of his daughters’ welfare the couple soon put the experience behind them. However, as the girls got older they became really difficult and constantly annoyed Chloe with rude comments and accusations that she couldn’t cope with having them around. It felt like a nightmare looking forward to each weekend. She and Ted does very long and odd shifts so they barely spend time together during weekdays and nights, the only time they ever get to have quality time together was at the

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Teenagers, in general, are rebellious and often tend not to follow the norms of the society. Max Apple’s “Stepdaughters” and John Updike’s “A & P” depict the same situations; teenage girls doing things against societal rules, and some people opposing their actions while some are supporting them. In “Stepdaughters,” the teenage girl, Stephanie, practices shot-put, a male dominated sport, going against the norm that girls should not play masculine sports. But her mother, Helen, does not like Stephanie practicing shot-put as she feels it takes away the girl’s femininity, while her stepfather grows to support the girl’s passion for shot-put. In “A&P,” three unnamed girls come to the grocery store wearing swimsuits, against the norm that girls

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Unlike other relationships, stepparent and stepchild relationships are often involuntary. This can leave very little motivation for stepparents and stepchildren to build a relationship. The family systems theory and the human

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Gonzalez defines a blended family as “a family in which a new spousal relationship is formed (either as a result of a divorce or death of one parent), resulting in the joining of either one or both parents’ child or children” (148). This article discusses the topic based on the most common type of blended family, which is a remarried family. Approximately 50% of all Americans have some kind of step-relationship. Being a part of a blended family has become more common as well as the significant issues related to family adjustment and maintenance of them. In the majority of instances, blended families start with little awareness of what to expect.

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Family structures within our Australian society vary from family to family, each family is individual and made up of members of different ages, genders and personalities; each family will have one or more backgrounds living within the same household and religions also vary from household to household. Family structures in australia are continually changing statistically, more families are being formed via adoption, through same gender parents, blended families. According to the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics), from the year 1986, to the year 2001, the sum of one-parent families in Australia has significantly increased by 53%. This increase partakes in many factors such as increasing divorce rates, births to young couples who separate

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Accomplice In Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan Chloe and Finn fake the disappearance of Chole by hiding her in Finn’s grandma 's basement. They fake the disappearance so they will have something to put on their college applications. The theme of this story is the truth will always come out. No matter how hard you try to hide it, right when you think everything is over the truth will come out.

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Hence, if traumatic experiences altered family relationship roles, then it may also negatively influence succeeding relationship patterns. For example, if a child grows up being accustomed to their parents being intoxicated most of the time and they are left in the care of their grandparents, then, they may follow the same modelled pattern when they grow up. Alcoholism may be accepted as a way of life, and parenting responsibilities may be left to the grandparents. Studies of Campbell & Evans-Campbell (2011), Holman and Birch (2001) and Yoshida and Busby (2011) found that an individual’s view of their parents’ marital quality, relationship quality with each parent and the impact of their family of origin can predict their own marital stability and satisfaction in

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Therefore, in conversations, individual ideas matter along with acknowledging and validating all family members’ feelings. My mother’s inability to have a child had a level of stress in the family unit early in the marriage. Thus, there became a less adaptive, somewhat differentiated marriage for a short period. Subsequently, after agreed upon in the decision to adopt, the more adaptive and well-differentiated marriage level strain was lower.

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The family can be defined as ‘any combination of two or more persons who are bound together by ties of mutual consent, birth and/or adoption and who, together, accept responsibility for the care and maintenance of group members through procreation or adoption, the socialisation of children and social control of members’ (UN, cited in McDonald 2003:80). However, the ‘family’ is

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The family is the basic unit of the society. They are peoples’ pillar of strength, inspiration, encouragement and love. From the very beginning of one’s life, the family played a very important role in the overall development of the child – his personality, interpersonal relations, the way he saw himself, and his viewed of the world. The family then is not just a group of people who shared the same name and lived under the same roof. Rather, they are people who loved each other, interacted, and helped each other grew into better individuals.

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