Stepfamily Relationships Development, Dynamics, and Interventions
This second edition synthesizes the emerging knowledge base on the diversity of stepfamilies, their inherent concerns, and why so relatively little is still known about them. Its extensive findings shed needed light on family arrangements relatively new t
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epfamily Relationships Development, Dynamics, and Interventions Second Edition
Stepfamily Relationships
Lawrence Ganong • Marilyn Coleman
Stepfamily Relationships Development, Dynamics, and Interventions Second Edition
Lawrence Ganong University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA
Marilyn Coleman University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA
ISBN 978-1-4899-7700-7 ISBN 978-1-4899-7702-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-7702-1
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Preface
We were fortunate to have started our research careers about the same time as the study of stepfamilies was “discovered” as a valid topic for social and behavioral scientists. We also started our own stepfamily during the same time period (the late 1970s), creating a “perfect storm” in which our personal and professional stepfamily interests were mounting as stepfamilies and related topics started to receive attention by researchers, clinicians, journalists, policy-makers, and others. Our skills as stepfamily researchers developed as the field advanced, and we feel privileged to have witnessed firsthand how stepfamily research and clinical practice has expanded over the past few decades. In fact, we have carefully and systematically written multiple reviews of research and clinical work targeting remarriage, stepparents, stepchildren, stepgrandparents, and other aspects of stepfamily living. Our goal is to make this book a readable, yet thorough, compilation of what is known about stepfamily relationships. This is the third book we have written about stepfamily relationships (Ganong & Coleman, 1994, 2004). Since our first book, there has been a phenomenal increase in the amount of research on stepfamily relationships; the total number of publications about stepfa
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