The nine-year-old boy at the center of a bitter international custody tug-of-war wants to continue to live with his Brazilian stepfamily and doesn't want to move back to New Jersey to live with his ...

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What do you do when your social battery runs out? Do you push on and force yourself to continue to socialize, or do you bow out and go home? It gets more complicated with you’re a teen with your ...

Ever wonder how stepmothers in Japan feel? Or what rights stepfamilies have across Europe? Not surprisingly, it's complicated. Despite efforts by scholars around the globe, the international portrait ...

To have a healthy and happy stepfamily you must know the importance of boundaries. Stepfamilies are difficult and many fail, often because the children don’t get along at all. The children may not ...

It’s funny how some families blend so naturally while others seem to never quite fit together. So, what would you do if your stepfamily expected you to see them as your own, even though you never ...

It's a reality today that about half of all marriages end in divorce and three out of every four people who get divorced will marry again. This means millions of new stepfamilies are formed each year.

Adult children are less likely to assist an aging stepparent, studies show. A growing “step gap” in senior care worries experts. By Paula Span The encounter happened years ago, but Beverly K. Brandt ...

Becoming a blended stepfamily can be fraught for everyone involved. How can your family build trust, function more smoothly and ultimately grow... How to help your stepfamily grow closer MARIELLE ...

Ever feel there should be a medal of honor for hanging on to your marriage while raising step-kids? It's not easy to form a remarried family when one or both of you has a child. Some of my colleagues ...