Embrace your newfound identity Step one in becoming the best possible step-parent is acknowledging and accepting the complexities of your new identity as a step-parent. Whether or not you have ...

With divorce rates at about 50 percent and climbing, it isn’t really a shocker that one in three Americans are living the ...

Gwyneth Paltrow may look like she has it together all the time, but she's just like the rest of us, at least when it comes to parenting — or really, step-parenting. If parenting is challenging (and we ...

Dear Eric: My husband and I have been married for 30 years. About seven years ago he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and three years ago I placed him in a nursing home. Over that time, I’ve continued ...

I first met my step-father when I was five, and my brothers were eleven and thirteen. He was not my step-father back then, of course, and would not officially marry my mother for another seven years, ...

With divorce rates at about 50 percent and climbing, it isn’t really a shocker that one in three Americans are living the stepfamily and blended family experience. So, is this new family dynamic in ...