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stepfamily
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step·fam·i·ly  (stpfm-l, -fml)
n. pl. step·fam·i·lies
A family with one or more stepchildren.
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Communication problems, blending families and making sure that strong relationships are build with step parents and step siblings along with relationship issues between parents: these issues - whether they exist independently or in combination - are often motivating factors for looking into family counseling.
Family Counseling Can Bring You Back Together by Sig Yanosway / Relationships community
Children in such families may worry that their own parent will have less time to spend with them, that they will have to share their bedroom or possessions with a step sibling they hardly know, or that their place in the family hierarchy will change (for example, from being the oldest or youngest in the original family to being a middle child in the step family).
Raising A Child in A Blended Family by Jesse Walters / Family and marriage community
This Orange Tree Theatre production dodges some of them by enlisting puppets to play the youngest step siblings, a device that could be awful but is actually rather neat.
Review: THE SUITCASE KID PLAYHOUSE by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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