Step-Parents and Pre-Teens

In books, ballets, films and folklore, stepfamily life has a terrible press and is often misrepresented as second best.

But it's not all divided loyalties and power struggles.

Pre-teens raised in stepfamilies have access to a larger extended family and maybe even another language or culture.

An only child may have brothers and sisters for the first time.

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