The friendship crisis addresses loneliness
as a crisis in our lives today.
Good but out-of-print books to buy
used from Amazon.
The
Combined Family: A Guide to Creating Successful
Step-Relationships by Taube S.
Kaufman, Glenn D. Slovenko, and Helen Coale.
In writing about the realities of the combined or blended family, the
authors write , "Combined Families Resemble Nuclear Families
in Only One Way: An Adult Couple is Present in Both Forms of Family;
There the Resemblance Ends." This essential statement sets
the tone for a book which tells the stories of stepfamilies from all
perspectives including those of the children. Kaufman stresses the
emotions of the children as they deal with the loss of a past family
life, while adjusting to a new household of dual expectations. As many
books on the subject of stepparents deal mostly with parental problems,
this is a good book for starters if you contemplating re-marriage with
children or already living in a blended family.
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StepFamily Without Getting Stepped On by Kevin Leman, Ph.D. Kevin Leman is a big
believer that your birth order in a family greatly determines your personality and even
your life. Now he carries that theory one step further into an excellent book for
stepfamilies where children's previous birth orders get turned topsy-turvy. The only child
finds herself a middle child in a blended family while the baby in a family for years is
promoted to middle child by the birth of his new sibling. Good reading for stepparents
determined to learn everything possible to make their new families work.
Leman has written many books on birth order, child rearing, discipline, and relationships.
His vast knowledge about children, families and relationships carries over into all of his
writings.
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