You've heard the bleak statistics about second marriages and stepfamilies. By the year 2007, stepfamilies will outnumber nuclear families.
Subsequent marriages have a higher failure rate than original ones.
In other words, when Mom or Dad remarries, it's not the Brady Bunch. But there's also good news, says a psychologist who studied 200 stepfamilies. Stable, happy stepfamilies can help heal the scars of divorce. They enable kids to see adults relating well, providing a model for resolving conflict. And they teach children how to get along with different types of people, Bray found.