Overview
The role of stepparent is becoming increasingly important and pervasiveas our society undergoes continuing marital evolution. Today, more Americans are part of a second family than a first. Approximately thirty-five million people now live in stepfamilies with thirteen hundred new ones forming each day.Stepparenting without Guilt is designed to give the new and seasoned stepparent an honest appraisal of what today's stepfamily looks like and how it behaves. It dispels the myth that stepfamilies behave like "normal" families, spells out many complicated issues that adults and children in stepfamilies face, and outlines what it takes to make a lasting cohesive family unit.
Stepparenting without Guilt introduces you to the Stepparent Styles: the superstepparent, the rescuer, the dictator, the reluctant one, and the ignorer, the Stepchildren Types: the condemner or critic, the pusher, the darling, the pest, the silent type and the wedge, and the Emotional Minefields: fear, anxiety, guilt, anger, jealousy, resentment, betrayal, abandonment, hurt, low self esteem, stress, and grief and loss.
"This book provides deep and rich support for people confronting one of the most challenging experience of our society. It is excellent." Caroline Myss, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can and Anatomy of the Spirit
Synopsis
The role of stepparent is becoming increasingly important and pervasiveas our society undergoes continuing marital evolution. Today, more Americans are part of a second family than a first. Approximately thirty-five million people now live in stepfamilies with thirteen hundred new ones forming each day.
Stepparenting without Guilt is designed to give the new and seasoned stepparent an honest appraisal of what today's stepfamily looks like and how it behaves. It dispels the myth that stepfamilies behave like "normal" families, spells out many complicated issues that adults and children in stepfamilies face, and outlines what it takes to make a lasting cohesive family unit.
Stepparenting without Guilt introduces you to the Stepparent Styles: the superstepparent, the rescuer, the dictator, the reluctant one, and the ignorer, the Stepchildren Types: the condemner or critic, the pusher, the darling, the pest, the silent type and the wedge, and the Emotional Minefields: fear, anxiety, guilt, anger, jealousy, resentment, betrayal, abandonment, hurt, low self esteem, stress, and grief and loss.
"This book provides deep and rich support for people confronting one of the most challenging experience of our society. It is excellent." Caroline Myss, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can and Anatomy of the Spirit