There are more than 22 million stepfamilies in America, and each one comes with its own set of challenges in combining different attitudes and lifestyles. Psychotherapist and family mediator M. Gary ...

Ever wonder how stepmothers in Japan feel? Or what rights stepfamilies have across Europe? Not surprisingly, it's complicated. Despite efforts by scholars around the globe, the international portrait ...

In the stillness of caregiving, when exhaustion battles worry, the threat of battling in court over the property of a beloved ...

Adult children are less likely to assist an aging stepparent, studies show. A growing “step gap” in senior care worries experts. By Paula Span The encounter happened years ago, but Beverly K. Brandt ...

“I'm of the mindset [that] the truth hurts but at least I'm being honest," the woman wrote in a recent Reddit post in which she detailed her story Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in ...

Here’s a not-so-uncommon predicament: A divorced man with kids marries a woman who also has children. At the wedding, their respective constellations of relatives — siblings, parents — get to know one ...

So your first marriage did not work out. But now you’ve found another special someone. Maybe you have kids from your previous marriage. Maybe your new partner does. Maybe you are dreaming about the ...

When I first became a stepmom, I was a 26-year-old, childless bachelorette who accidentally fell in love with a single dad with three kids. I say accidentally because marrying a man with kids was not ...

When Heidi and Rob Sykes met, they each had three children from a previous marriage. During the five years they dated, they often found activities they could share with the children: pool parties, ...