Therapy for Blended Families

Households in which two married people are the parents of all the children in the home are now the exception in the United States.

Divorce affects more marriages than not, and step-families or “blended families” are nearly as common. This situation raises challenges, as children may be accustomed to different parenting styles, may experience stress due to visitations, or due to conflict between their parents or between one parent and the other parent’s new spouse.

Sibling rivalry can take on a new dimension, as children may feel compelled to compete for attention and dominance in the new household.

Visitations mean that the once typical circumstance, in which families were together day after day and could therefore work out harmonious arrangements in due time, gives way to what can be a confusing, insecure pattern, where new family members never have quite enough to get used to one another.

All in all, blending families present many unavoidable challenges.

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