Steps to Step Parenting Success: How to Integrate Yourself into Your New Family

These days it can often feel like a 'normal' nuclear family is something of a rarity; that most families are varied, broken up or diverse. Children find themselves with step-parents, half-siblings, or living in single-parent households - even having same-sex parents. It's a time when the family unit is a much more flexible arrangement, rather than the biological 'Mom, Dad and their biological children' which was the old configuration of the past.

The most common structure away from the tradi...