Communication and Involving Blended Families by Kim Copithorne
Communication and Involving Blended Families Sometimes families can be a complicated matter, and it can become even more complicated when families are blended together. In our center and as our role as caregivers and educators, we are here to help provide resources and support during and after the sometimes difficult transition of blending a family. Blended Family Statistics: About 43% of all marriages are remarriages for at least one of the adults About 65% of remarriages involve children from the prior marriage and form blended families One of three Americans is now a stepparent, a stepchild, a stepsibling, or some other member of a blended family One out of 10 children of divorce experiences three or more parental marriage breakups. The high school dropout rate of children of divorced parents is roughly two times higher than that of children of which the parents did not divorce. (Wells, 2013) As society "norms" change and evolve, the definition of a family