One Family, Two Family, New Family Stories And Advice For Stepfamilies

A must-read for stepparents, dating single parents and befuddled relatives of stepparents, One Family, Two Family, New Family: Stories And Advice For Stepfamilies describes how writer Lisa Cohn and Ph.D. psychologist William Merkel tackle numerous stepfamily challenges during their first years together. One Family, Two Family, New Family is filled with practical advice about stepparenting plus honest tales from Cohn, Merkel and three other families about the joys, triumphs, heartbreaks and challenges of stepfamily life. Cohn and Merkel reveal how they and other stepparents struggle with values clashes, rejection by stepchildren and difficult ex-spouses, and provide practical advice about these stepfamily challenges. As they relate the tale of their first years together, the authors tell how they and other families chose to unite their hearts and households, but keep their refrigerators and checkbooks separate; how they abandoned their fantasies about acting like a traditional family and how they let go of expectations about loving all children equally. Book jacket.Cohn, Lisa is the author of 'One Family, Two Family, New Family Stories And Advice For Stepfamilies', published 2004 under ISBN 9781883991746 and ISBN 1883991749.