Do you know that there are an estimated 35 million adult stepparents in the U.S., and that there are 1,300 new stepfamilies forming every day? Did you know that 50% of all marriages now represent a remarriage of one or both of the parties? That the number of households with stepchildren has doubled in ten years, so that there are approximately 18 million children under age 18 living in stepfamilies? What these statistics essentially mean is that the stepfamily is becoming increasingly common in our communities.
