Reconstituted or blended families 3.8

Question 1

What is a reconstituted family?

Answer 1

Where two nuclear families have split up and merge to form a new family.

Question 2

2011 statistics

Answer 2

11% of couples with dependent children were step families.
2 in 5 marriages end in divorce
Increased since 1950’s however number of step families are now decreasing.
Mothers are 90% of the time the lone parent.

Question 3

Allan and Crow 2001

Answer 3

‘Seven out of ten families with dependent children may be described as married-couple families.’

Question 4

Smart

Answer 4

At least one parent had found another partner. Where it worked the children felt they had two homes.

Question 5

Hardyment

Answer 5

1/3 of prominent historical women came from ‘broken homes’

Question 6

Braun

Answer 6

Blended families take 10yrs to bed down completely.