How does being part of a stepfamily influence a child's development?

Stepfamilies, created when adults with children marry, remarry, or cohabit, constitute a family form that differs in several ways from the nuclear family.

Children in stepfamilies may evidence different levels of social adjustment than children in nuclear families, and there are several perspectives to understand these differences.

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