Blended family

These books about divorce can help your child work through the feelings and questions that come with big changes in your family structure.

All of us were (theoretically) gung-ho about trying out the so-called “blended family” thing. I imagined it was going to be like a box of cake mix: just add the ingredients, stir and voila—Instant Family! I was blissfully delusional.

Knowledge is power, and sometimes it takes more than just love for a white mom to prepare her Black teen daughter for the world we live in.

Creating a cohesive stepfamily takes work when you both have kids. Here are the most common hurdles and solutions for blended families.

Having a sense of history can be enormously powerful for adopted kids. There’s a wide range of what an open adoption can look like.