Blending Families With Children

The nature of the American family has changed significantly. A century ago, divorce was uncommon. Families were usually only "broken" by death from accident or disease. Children went to orphanages, were adopted or taken into families of surviving relatives. There were problems and unhappiness in such outcomes, but the economic realities of the time required that individuals in thrown-together families make it together because other alternatives were few or none.


Today, however, more than hal...