Blended families / Stefan Kiesbye, book editor.

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Foreword -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Growing up in a blended family -- 1. A stepbrother becomes a brother / Lyssa Friedman -- 2. Another mother´s love / Heidi Bernadette Mack -- 3. I was stressed by the fights of my blended family / Kathryn Esplin -- 4. My father´s mysterious new life / Michelle Lupton -- 5. The man I call ´dad´ is the man who raised me / Marc Lynott -- 6. My real father is not my dad / Sarah Ivens -- ch. 2. Parenting in blended families -- 1. Most families do not blend / Ron Deal, interviewed by Duane Careb and Jim Mueller -- 2. The real lives of blended families do not follow TV scripts / Jennifer Busse McClenon -- 3. Bringing together parents and stepparents / Lisa Cohn -- 4. A different kind of mother´s day / Dawn Miller -- 5. Stepfamilies are normal families / Laurie McGough Hanson -- ch. 3. Toward a new understanding of family -- 1. Leaving behind traditional views of belonging / Natasha Sky -- 2. Growing up in a group marriage / Laird Harrison -- 3. Divorce does not have to be the end of family / Constance Ahrons -- 4. Blending families and faiths / Barbara Miksch -- 5. A marriage blending family and race / Bill Grady -- Organizations to contact -- For further research -- Index.