Blended+Families

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In remarried families, some children may be offspring of the mother, some of the father, and the remaining may be born to the remarried couple. || Members of the new family come with different backgrounds, have no family history together, and have no established way of doing things. || Newly blended families need to recognize and mourn their losses, develop the ability to make decisions as a family, support each other, nurture the parent-child relationship, and foster new relationships among their new stepparent and other stepchildren as well as their own parent and siblings. || || [] Text: Parents as Partners in Education: Families and Schools Working Together  ||
 * Description
 * Common Problems
 * Statistics
 *  60% of all remarriages eventually end in legal divorce. Untold others will experience emotional divorce and unsatisfying relationships.
 * About 75% of divorced persons eventually remarry.
 * About 43% of all marriages are remarriages for at least one of the adults.
 * About 65% of remarriages involve children from the prior marriage and form blended families. ||
 * Parents
 * Students
 * They feel unwanted by a stepparent
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Feel alienated in the new family
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Torn by tension between biological parents
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Discomfort around the holidays and major events
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Feel instant competition between stepchildren and new parent figure ||
 * <span style="color: #0c00ff; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 47pt;">For Teachers
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Provide workshops for teachers of stages of blended families or on developing family traditions that strengthen families
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Eliminate use of terms such as broken home
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Mail report cards, newsletters, and other informational items to custodial and noncustodial parents
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Include noncustodial parents on field trips
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Provide peer support
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Offer books or articles to families
 * <span style="color: #0c00ff; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 47pt;">Sources