Stepfamilies

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Summary: good for mothers who remarry...not for fathers who remarry
Review: This book is good for women who have custody of their children and decide to remarry. It describes issues that might be faced by the new step-father and the resulting step-family. There is just one small section about the father and his new wife. I am currently a part-time step-mother and was looking for information on how to deal with my husbands young children whom we get to see only two weekends a month. I was also looking for information on how to deal with the difficult ex-wife. This book didn't help me much. Like I said, this book is good for women with children who remarry. It just didn't fit my situation.

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Summary: Excellent source for struggling stepfamilies!
Review: This book very clearly details the specific issues that my step family has been dealing with over the past three years. This is not a how-to book. However, it does offer much reassurance for stepfamilies who are struggling to define the roles within their familiy. The book states that the first two years are the hardest. That was wonderful to read. I thought our family was going break up because we weren't operating smoothly immediately. But just as the book describes, after two horrifically emotionally painful years, we turned a corner and the rewards are tremendous. This book is an invaluable resource for stepfamilies and easy to read to boot. My husband will tell anyone that I am the original tightwad, yet I am buying two copies to pass on to friends. Read it.

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Summary: Best of the Stepfamily Books
Review: When I became engaged to a man with two children, we read every stepfamily book we could find in order to increase our knowledge of how to make the changes as smooth as possible for the children, and for us. Both of us found this book to be the most useful. The only downside is that most of the situations are presented for stepfathers, rather than stepmothers. Also, most of the situtations assume the mother has primary custody. (We have joint custody.) This problem is true of most books, though.