Stepfamilies and step parents: a delicate arrangement

Stepfamilies are a delicate arrangement. For them to come into being, children usually have to be physically separated from a biological parent.

While this may come as a relief to some children, who have witnessed abuse or even violence in their former family unit, that is relatively rare and for most it is an event associated with sadness and loss from which the child may never recover.

At the same time they may struggle to accept a relative stranger as a step “parent ” at all, whatever the good intentions of the adults.

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