Statistics:
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42% of adults have a steprelationship.
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About 75% (1.2 million Americans) of those who divorce will eventually remarry.
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Single-parent families rose high in 2005 to 37% of families.
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There are 35 million Americans in the US today who are remarried.
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Americans who divorce each year eventually remarry and most have children.
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Children from homes where the biological parents are married tend to be more academically successful.
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Everyone's roles shift's once you create a step-family.
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The unpredictable part of having blended family, are the kids reactions. The reactions can either be postive or negative.
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About 100 million Americans have a step relationship.
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1/3 of weddings in America today form stepfamiles.
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85% of U.S population will marry at least once in their lifetime.
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Children tend to react to the "blended familes" concept negatively.
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More than 1/4 of the U.S population marry over the age of 50. (This most likely doesn't have an effect on the child because the child shouldn't be living with his/her parents by now, based on the circumstances that they are in.)
