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With divorce rates at about 50 percent and climbing, it isn’t really a shocker that one in three Americans are living the stepfamily and blended family experience. So, is this new family dynamic in ...

I first met my step-father when I was five, and my brothers were eleven and thirteen. He was not my step-father back then, of course, and would not officially marry my mother for another seven years, ...

I am a first-time mom in my early second trimester and due in December—peak flu season. My partner has two kids who come and stay at the house 50 percent of the time. They are great girls but get sick ...

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