The Grace To Deal with Adult Step Children
Why would mature, independent, married adult children have a negative reaction to their parent’s happy remarriage?†Experts believe of a traditional expectation that the marriage will be long and happy and the newly created blended family will share in the couple’s obvious warmth and contentedness.
In the book, Step Wars: Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies, Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D. explain that much of the pain in adult stepfamilies is due to excessively high expectations on the part of the older couple and with personal anecdotes and professional insight.
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Most Married Dads Report Equally Sharing Parenting Roles
More than two-thirds 70 percent of married dads in America consider themselves equal parenting partners with their wives, and 69 percent say fathers are evolving to meet the needs of todays world, according to a report from Packaged Facts and Silver Stork Research, writes MarketingCharts.
Seven in 10 of the estimated 64 million fathers in the US say they are “hands-on” and want to keep their families first on their list of priorities, the second edition of “US Dads Market: A Unique Profile of Fathers, Their Attitudes, Values and Behavior as Consumers” finds.
A survey included in the report also finds that nearly three-fourths of US fathers open to dad-focused marketing programs. Some 40 percent say marketing efforts to dads should be designed so kids get something out of them, 20 percent believe a dad-focused marketing program is overdue, and 17 percent would like to see a dad-focused marketing program “fix a problem.”
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