A journalist called me the other day wanting me to make some pithy, erudite comments on the subject of the so-called “stepfamily.” I am eminently qualified, I propose, to remark on the subject because I was raised in one, although it was not called a stepfamily back then. We were a family: me, my mother, my stepfather, and their two children.
Parenting Advice with John Rosemond - 'Step-family' is your real family
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