Stepfamilies and Divroce

According to statistics, in our world today, half of marriage is said to be the most difficult problem in the world. I am finished with divorce. About 50% of the population will also live in a family environment. In other words, according to the US Census Bureau in 1990, more than half of today's American families are participating in the situation of one or more families in their lives, or are planning to participate in the future.

My in-law family is becoming increasingly familiar in the United States. As the divorce rate rises and the remarriage rate rises, the two families will become a family together. According to statistics, 1300 new families are formed every day. More than half of American families remarried, 75% of marriages divorced and remarried. The large family consists of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. In some cases, extended families live with nuclear families or replace it. An example involves an elderly parent who has moved into a child as a result of his age. This imposes high demands on caregivers, especially those who choose to fulfill these obligations for large families.

Therefore, the family with the stepfather constitutes an unbalanced stepfather family. However, stepfather seems to be difficult to integrate with family. As a family counselor, I have studied my family for over two years, and I found that many stepmothers had erroneous expectations about the expectation that they should do. Unless someone understands their own basic assumptions, they are unlikely to change their behavior. Therefore, an important aspect of cognitive therapy is to enable people to explore and understand their hypotheses. This is the first step to change destructive or self-destructive behaviors, which is the basis of my latest book "Step into the foot, go out: create family rhythms".

4 Based on the studies of Visher and Visher, discuss this family with three different structural features that are different from the traditional first-time family. There are three main ways in the structure of families and traditional nuclear families. According to Strong, DeVault and Sayad (2001), the first method is to allow parents in the family to adopt different custody arrangements, including individual custody, co-custody, legal custody, actual custody or custody, It is possible to provide it. Their children