Links to Stepparent-stepchild Articles

        Stepparent and Stepchild are two of up to 15 alien roles that typical stepfamily members need to evolve and stabilize, with little experience or informed help. These roles and relationships evolve in a complex web of many other dynamic relationships and special family-adjustment tasks.  Co-parent Projects 9 and 10 are about merging biofamilies and stabilizing high-nurturance stepfamily roles and relationships over time. Links below leads to articles offering perspective, solutions, and selected resources. Dynamic mixes of these and other problems occur simultaneously.

Basics

addiction

adoption

adult stepkids

boundaries

discipline 

dishonesty

disinterest

dislike

disrespect

distrust

effective co-parenting

major guilts

hostility

love vs. friendship

names & titles

sexual feelings

stepchild needs

stepteens

wounded stepkids

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