0 a family that is formed by two people and the child or children of one or both of them from a previous relationship: --
The family accepts itself for who it is, there is a strong sense of the stepfamily's middle ground, and children feel secure in both households.
Tired of being harassed by her family, the young girl takes all of her stepfamily's most prized possessions and sets them ablaze.
It is widely drawn and includes stepfamily, adoptive relatives and unmarried couples.
Secondly, there is the issue of fathering in stepfamilies.
The question has been surprisingly little considered in stepfamily studies.
However, this definition fails to encompass the household of the absent biological parent, who may also be cohabiting or married, creating another stepfamily household.
Participants lived in a nuclear family (n 10), stepfamily (n 3) and single-parent family (n 6), one with the father.
Even for them it seems, the ideal of the nuclear family still shapes attitudes to stepfamily life.
