This detailed discussion of family structures in contemporary society addresses the problems encountered by step-parenting and blended families. Specifically, the writer discusses how step-families, in addition to problems of blending two familial groups, have to also cope with conceptual problems with society at-large concerning idealized notionsl of how familie are suppose to work. This paper has five pages and ten sources in the bibliography.
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are supposed to work, with the public perspective often exacting undesirable and erroneous requirements upon those who so desperately try to adapt to such a new life. On the
other hand, however, a greater component of public perception toward stepfamilies lends itself to a significantly more positive approach to this modern form of family structure, inasmuch as the high
rate of divorce continues to bring two otherwise independent units together in order to create one. Bibliography lists 10 sources. TLCstepF.rtf PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF STEPFAMILIES
AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL by (c) November 2001 paper properly! The family structure has enough difficulties
within the intolerance of contemporary society to have to also deal with the issue of stepparenting and blended families. Inherent to the added pressures of assimilating into someone elses
familial composition is the external perception of how such families are supposed to work, with the public perspective often exacting undesirable and erroneous requirements upon those who so desperately try
to adapt to such a new life. On the other hand, however, a greater component of public perception toward stepfamilies lends itself to a significantly more positive approach to
this modern form of family structure, inasmuch as the high rate of divorce continues to bring two otherwise independent units together in order to create one. "The substitution of
cohabitation for marriage makes it more difficult to follow remarriage trends and to describe stepfamily life. This trend toward the deinstitutionalization of marriage may be partly a response to
the high risks of divorce and the complexities of stepfamily life" (Cherlin et al, 1994, p. 359). Public perception of stepfamilies at the national level indicates a significant change
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