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Stepparenting

Citadel Press
Kensington
By: Jeannette Lofas Ph. D., Westbrook University, LCSW

STEPPARENTING, the world's best selling book on stepparenting, 3rd Edition.

For couples in step situations, making it all work can be an awesome challenge.

In this newly revised and updated edition Stepparenting, Jeannette Lofas Ph. D., Westbrook University draws on her twenty-year track record of counseling and coaching stepfamilies and provided up-to-the minute advice for dealing with the many baffling and emotional issues that beset them today.

" Dating-romance vs. reality
" The Wedding-from ettiquette to a new notion of family
" Setting up a household-yours, mine, or ours?
" Introducing a child to a new partner
" Developing vital strength as a couple to manage family life as full partners
" Living together-questions of discipline and belonging
" Depression, grief and anger surrounding divorce
" Holiday conflicts and the rituals of visitation
" Legal rights
" Ex-spouses

Practical, supportive, and utterly authoritative, Stepparenting provides all the techniques tools and strategies you need to make a happy and successful stepfamily. It has been translated into numerous languages.

Jeannette Lofas Ph. D., Westbrook University, the pioneering founder of the Stepfamily Foundation, Inc., is a certified divorce and co-parenting mediator and received the 1995 National Parents' Day Award from President Clinton.

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